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Re:Mozilla blog: Begin your MV3 migration by implementing ne... by Semaphor on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @02:58AM (#33417893)
No, they don’t. But they also don’t listen to people who’d have FF still be the slow-as-molasses version with XUL it used to be.
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Re:Mozilla blog: Begin your MV3 migration by implementing ne... by xdfgh1112 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:54AM (#33418593)
I remember when Firefox first came out and it was so much faster than Mozilla at the time. Not sure what happened.
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Re:Mozilla blog: Begin your MV3 migration by implementing ne... by Semaphor on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:01AM (#33418641)
Than Mozilla? You mean than Netscape?
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Re:Mozilla blog: Begin your MV3 migration by implementing ne... by xdfgh1112 on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:06AM (#33418676)
The original Mozilla browser that came out of Netscape.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite

It had a reputation for being slow and bloated at the time which prompted the creation of a slimmed down browser, Phoenix which eventually became Firefox

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Re:Mozilla blog: Begin your MV3 migration by implementing ne... by Semaphor on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:14AM (#33418746)
Oh wow, I’m not even sure if I ever used that. I do remember Phoenix, but this barely rings a bell.

And towards your question: Different times. Both hardware and browser capabilities were vastly different back then, so some technological choices made in the early days might have made more sense.

For me personally, I know that back in the day I was a lot more forgiving of delays than I am now.

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