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Yoric on Sept 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox

Actually, we had a prototype doing this. In the end, we didn't because it broke some add-ons, but it might be time to try again.

Someone on Sept 23, 2016 [–]

Broke some add-ons that read or, worse, write data behind the browser's back, you mean?

Also, what do these add-ons do? The only use case I can think of is figuring out whether the user has a tab open to a given site, and that's going around the browser's security model, so breaking that would be a good thing.

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