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In defense of FirefoxIn defense of FirefoxPosted May 29, 2008 19:53 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137)In reply to: In defense of Firefox by intgr Parent article: In defense of Firefox
The reason is the ancient design decision that the UI and behavior would be customizable through JavaScript extensions. As extensions are global (i.e. they can see and manipulate all of your tabs and UI elements), they need to live in a single interpreter.That explains a lot! A repeatable example (at least for me) is linuxjournal.com, which freezes Firefox for about 15 seconds on my system.
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In defense of Firefox Posted Jun 19, 2008 17:01 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] This is no longer a good example -- the Linux Journal front page loads much faster than it did a few weeks ago, at least for me.
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