Search detection is an important security feature, that we're continuing to work on. We have a plan to land this as part of Firefox code (not as an addon), and we believe this will alleviate the memory regression, but we're not ready to do that just yet. For these reasons, (speaking as a WebExtensions module owner) I'm ready to accept this (small) regression for the time being. Please note that this doesn't mean we don't take performance and memory efficiency seriously. Just in the last 2 months, we've landed several significant improvements to Base JS that are an order of magnitude larger than this regression (5-6% Base Content JS memory reduction from bug 1708193 and bug 1708193). If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or contact me directly.
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Search detection is an important security feature, that we're continuing to work on. We have a plan to land this as part of Firefox code (not as an addon), and we believe this will alleviate the memory regression, but we're not ready to do that just yet. For these reasons, (speaking as a WebExtensions module owner) I'm ready to accept this (small) regression for the time being. Please note that this doesn't mean we don't take performance and memory efficiency seriously. Just in the last 2 months, we've landed several significant improvements to Base JS that are an order of magnitude larger than this regression (5-6% Base Content JS memory reduction from bug 1708193 and bug 1708243). If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or contact me directly.
Search detection is an important security feature, that we're continuing to work on. We have a plan to land this as part of Firefox code (not as an addon), and we believe this will alleviate the memory regression, but we're not ready to do that just yet. For these reasons, (speaking as a WebExtensions module owner) I'm willing to accept this (small) regression for the time being. Please note that this doesn't mean we don't take performance and memory efficiency seriously. Just in the last 2 months, we've landed several significant improvements to Base JS that are an order of magnitude larger than this regression (5-6% Base Content JS memory reduction from bug 1708193 and bug 1708243). If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or contact me directly.