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by ohthehugemanate 3229 days ago
Only reason?

I use Firefox because it's way faster, more stable, and from an organization that I trust. I run Nightly, which means that I made the shift to Webextensions last week. My only extension that didn't have a WE version or alternative was LastPass. No surprise, since they seem to take such poor care of their extensions anyway. That's a Deal Breaker for me, so I switched to pass.
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aorth 3229 days ago
I'm not sure if it's faster yet, but Firefox 57+ is getting very good due to all the radical changes they have been making in the last year. If you haven't checked out Firefox in a while I think you should try Firefox Nightly...
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nindalf 3229 days ago
Fwiw I haven't had an issue with Lastpass, before or after the change to the extension API. They appear to be using the exact same code base as in the Chrome extension and that's fine by me.
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tw21 3229 days ago
Same here... Firefox remains my default browser for its indepence. And it is great to see it improve. Once they catch up with the Webapi I hope they keep expanding it beyond a Chrome copy.
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sweep3r 3229 days ago
Firefox is way faster than what? IE6?
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sgift 3229 days ago
Firefox nightly, which will end up as FF57, uses less memory than Chrome and is faster. (Windows, x64). One of the reasons this was possible was disabling the old extension system. Does it hurt? Sure. Was it needed? Yes.
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quazeekotl 3229 days ago
Do you have any evidence this is actually true? XUL is still there, the firefox UI is still written in it and it will be for quite some time to come. I find it hard to beleive disallowing XUL extensions have significantly sped anything up.
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seba_dos1 3229 days ago
Disallowing XUL extensions made it possible to make many underlying changes that otherwise would break a lot of them. There are plenty of long-lasting tickets on Bugzilla being finally tackled in Firefox 57.
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jsudhams 3229 days ago
I don't use extension any extension but i use Firefox on Desktop and Mobile. From end user wait time etc i dont see any difference between firefox and chrome. For some reason firefox is seem to be faster than chrome on mobile. I use firefox focus mostly on mobile. It would be really sad to see firefox go away as that is only one which is not tied to OS or tied to provider of webmail etc. I see firefox as a product from browser company.
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