Firefox on macOS: now smaller and quicker to install

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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.

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.

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://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerTIL/comments/6xpm0l/other...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

MNG never took off, today WebP covers both still and moving images.

On Windows though Firefox drains my battery, even though it is my preferred browser.

This is what they should fix.

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