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Re:Web Extension equivalents to legacy Firefox add-ons by interfixus on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @03:15AM (#16007699)
I was skeptical, and one month in, I still sort of hate it, but there isn't really anywhere else to go.

Firefox 1.0 arguably had better UI, or at least the option to make it better.

Also, I remember running it on a 32MB machine. Today, with only this single HN tab open, memory consumption is reported at somewhere above half a gigabyte.

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Re:Web Extension equivalents to legacy Firefox add-ons by norswap on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @08:43AM (#16008549)
This pains me too. It's hard to believe that all the new "browser technology" is responsible for this bloat.

On the other hand, I will trade memory use for many things. One thing that is infuriating to me is that despite the memory hog, a single tab can still crash the whole browser. All the memory use doesn't even buy you failure isolation.

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