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Re:We Need Chrome No More by AsyncAwait on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:26PM (#19267099)
It could never deploy multi-process with XUL cruft. Then the argument would be that Firefox is too far behind. You can never win everybody.
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Re:We Need Chrome No More by gnomewascool on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:23PM (#19267823)
"e10s compatible" add-ons were as fully-featured as the "original" XUL add-ons and did not interfere with multi-process at all. For instance, VimFx was e10s compatible and could even run with Firefox Nightly (which allowed "legacy" add-ons), without disabling multi-process, until about Firefox 65(!), without major changes.
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Re:We Need Chrome No More by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:27PM (#19267513)
Taking away XUL is not the problem. Leaving users with a crippled replacement is.
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