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raheemm on July 9, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS

I think they are holding back on plugins because this is what causes the various speed bottlenecks that FF is suffering from. Plugins are nice until they slow down the browser.

eru on July 9, 2009 [–]

Yeah. Firefox needs (soft) realtime [1] plugins.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

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