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Re:Safari is adopting an extensions API similar to Firefox’s... by quantummkv on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:02PM (#23617734)
It's not Apple that slows down Firefox on Mac. It's just that Firefox cannot match the resources that apple and google throw around on their browsers. Firefox has to be economical on where their resources are directed towards. And understandingly Macos specific optimizations not the top priority.
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Re:Safari is adopting an extensions API similar to Firefox’s... by MintelIE on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:45PM (#23621333)
They didn't have to rewrite everything in Rust thereby harming performance to a large degree.
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Re:Safari is adopting an extensions API similar to Firefox’s... by saagarjha on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:19PM (#23622779)
That's not how Rust works.
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Re:Safari is adopting an extensions API similar to Firefox’s... by MintelIE on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:50PM (#23635602)
>checks benchmarks And that's why I disagree. Also old-school Firefox and Seamonkey run great on my P3 450.
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