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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by the8472 on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:06PM (#12437478)
Addons are a big part of the firefox ecosystem and they reach deep into the internals of the browser. So just replacing the browser wholesale would break a lot of things over the course of a single release.
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Re:Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in resp... by kalleboo on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @02:45AM (#12441320)
They are deprecating the old add-on API now in favor of a more Chrome/Safari-like one now though
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