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Firefox on macOS: now smaller and quicker to install

• sitkack 2y ago
  You install once and use it every day, why is this important? Reducing memory consumption, or maybe fixing 20+ year old bugs would have a much larger impact. Reminds of when Mozilla killed APNG because it would add 100k to the binary. Literally the bandwidth savings on the first damn use of the feature.
  • sitkack 2y ago
    I re-read the article, it has one valid point in that it helps folks with really really bad internet connections. This reminded me of the story when a YT (?) engineer optimized the page containing the video itself and serving rates for the crappiest video encodes went through the roof. It made using the site actually possible.
  • sitkack 2y ago
    Correction, it was MNG support that wasn't added because it would have added 100k to the executable, so Mozilla created APNG instead. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257197 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257197 https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerTIL/comments/6xpm0l/other_there_are_animated_pngs_and_they_work_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerTIL/comments/6xpm0l/other... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG MNG never took off, today WebP covers both still and moving images.
• fithisux 2y ago
  On Windows though Firefox drains my battery, even though it is my preferred browser. This is what they should fix.