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Re:Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox... by IAmNotAFix on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:56AM (#30180188)
> all network requests go through one socket thread

Looks like the crucial issue to me. The SPOF which enables something as absurd as "Firefox Outage".

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Re:Retrospective and technical details on the recent Firefox... by rockdoe on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:42AM (#30190555)
This isn't atypical for high performance network software, AFAIK. Single-thread with aio.
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