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Re:Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @03:19PM (#14150865)
Not entirely, there are still some APIs that are unimplemented in Firefox[1].

But yes, adding storage.sync will help a lot.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Br...

Re:Reducing power consumption for background tabs on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:13PM (#13880347)
Seems that it can be turned off at:

  chrome://flags/#expensive-background-timer-throttling
...though they may eventually remove the flag.
Re:What Rust Can Do That Other Languages Can't on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:33AM (#13579698)
The original example does not return a mutable reference; in Rust you must explicitly opt in to mutability. Compare [1] and [2].

[1]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=78e7af18c6fc7d37d9df96be63a...

[2]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=2072a18b674685f20c9d1504a88...