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But not as many as Dennis, who has 40  |
In the Firefox 3 days, I had a profile that loaded
115 extensions.
That was mostly a "to see if I
could" exercise, and the production profile was a lot leaner. But it worked and all extensions ran. Startup was rather longer, as they all had to be instantiated, and most were XUL and JavaScript combos, which took longer to spin up.
I have about 45 Web Extensions in Quantum, with about that many more installed but disabled, as I go through new additions one by one to see what they add/how they're used , and determine if they're keepers.
They
don't add overhead to startup here. Quantum, run off an SSD, with profile on an SSD, comes up in about 3 seconds.
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Ah-ah, that answers my unasked question - why are you running a version of Firefox targeted at large institutions on a personal laptop?
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Because she wanted a version that wouldn't update and let her run her legacy setup. The difference in ESR is the version on which it is based, and the frequency with which major versions are released. There's nothing about it that says you can't run it on a personal machine, and many folks do what Blossom and I did, for the same reasons.
The difference here is that Firefox ESR was an interim solution intended to give me headroom while I waited for the Quantum dust to settle and Web Extensions to appear that did the same things the legacy stuff I ran did. I didn't expect to run it indefinitely. Enough Web Extension stuff that fills the needs the legacy extension stuff did appeared that I was able to switch to Quantum. The timing of
making that switch was the reason to run ESR.
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Dennis