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Re:Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensio... by NikolaeVarius on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:26PM (#22908770)
Only way to make it suck less

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/06/27/reinventi...

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Re:Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensio... by TomMarius on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:29PM (#22908787)
It sucks? I switched from Chrome last year and am nothing but happy. Who decided it sucks?
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Re:Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensio... by ta1771 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:12PM (#22909755)
Single process for all tabs/sites, no sandboxing, for a start.

I personally won't touch Gecko anymore, and I've been a FF advocate since it was called Mozilla, ha

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Re:Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensio... by solarkraft on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:50PM (#22912136)
That article doesn't explain anything about it. The previous Firefox runs (almost?) all extensions impressively well, with little required optimization.
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Re:Kiwi Browser - Android Chrome based browser with extensio... by detaro on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:36PM (#22909417)
That link doesn't seem to address why plugins need to be restricted to a whitelist? (Which might not be the end-goal, but Mozilla is quite cagey about it)
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