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Re:Firefox 72.0 by tgv on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @10:52AM (#21981084)
> Open new windows more quickly.

Windows open more quickly now than before. A few versions ago, it had become unbearably slow (I'm an FF user since Camino died), and I stuck to using tabs only, but 72 seems to have caught up again. I estimate that it's around 0.3s slower than Chrome on my machine.

> Use the platform native key store.

Amen to that.

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Re:Firefox 72.0 by ridiculous_fish on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:44PM (#21982356)
Confirming the window opening speedup! Previously FF spent a lot of time compiling shaders when opening a new window. Perhaps these are now been cached.
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