browser war.... what's the point?

What's the point of browser war when all we see are nothing special? Special features of the browser just does not seems as the main reason for a change. Users of IE keep getting lagging reload of pages while Firefox loads the page very fast. IE 8 have the dropdown URL bar not working. So to IE, you better fix it up instead of add on this or that. I have hold on upgrade to IE8 because he URL bar can't drop down. Search of the net shows users having the same problem and some users or perhaps MS 'fans' giving lame answers which just isn't the solution. That said, I am using firefox only if IE can't load. There are still functions that IE could do better but for now, speed is important. Better buck up IE or bye bye.