Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
by mmastrac on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:21PM
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> developing for the sake of
It's exactly the opposite of this. Have you read through the FF update notes? The web standards are a moving goalpost - constantly evolving.
On top of that they've been slowly landing incremental improvements to Electrolysis that have allowed them to turn it on for more and more users without big risks to stability. You can't do that for a browser with "big bang" releases every year.
In the last years I think it's been shown that the only model that works for browsers is "evergreen".
It's exactly the opposite of this. Have you read through the FF update notes? The web standards are a moving goalpost - constantly evolving.
On top of that they've been slowly landing incremental improvements to Electrolysis that have allowed them to turn it on for more and more users without big risks to stability. You can't do that for a browser with "big bang" releases every year.
In the last years I think it's been shown that the only model that works for browsers is "evergreen".