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Re:Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE by sgift on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:44AM (#15062663)
Firefox nightly, which will end up as FF57, uses less memory than Chrome and is faster. (Windows, x64). One of the reasons this was possible was disabling the old extension system. Does it hurt? Sure. Was it needed? Yes.
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Re:Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE by quazeekotl on Monday August 21, 2017 @08:03AM (#15063902)
Do you have any evidence this is actually true? XUL is still there, the firefox UI is still written in it and it will be for quite some time to come. I find it hard to beleive disallowing XUL extensions have significantly sped anything up.
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Re:Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE by seba_dos1 on Monday August 21, 2017 @08:50AM (#15064157)
Disallowing XUL extensions made it possible to make many underlying changes that otherwise would break a lot of them. There are plenty of long-lasting tickets on Bugzilla being finally tackled in Firefox 57.
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