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> one straightforward way to do this is to look at what extensions and addons users install

Oh God No! I do not use adblock. I use noscript and im happy with it. I also do not use "Video DownloadHelper" which is the second most used addon. And neither do I use Firebug which is #3. Please do not put all this stuff into my browser! And not everybody uses noscript which I use and which is #4. Im completely fine with installing it.

How about improving on the basic stuff? For example make FF use all cores of my machine and not just one?

> Please do not put all this stuff into my browser!

I was a very happy Opera user for years under the exact assumption that there is little need to install addons if your browser has all the features you need – and I didn’t use all of Opera’s features either, but somehow even with the included mail and bittorrent clients, it ended up being smaller than, say, Firefox.

> For example make FF use all cores of my machine and not just one?

They are working on it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

This is already in the nightly version for some months: "File > New e10s Window" will open a new window in its own process.

    File > New e10s Window

Wow! Nice. Thanks for the info!

They already built Firebug into the browser.

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