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		TwoBit on Aug 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 15 arrives, supports compressed textures f... I don't think Firefox was ever asleep. They just had different priorities during the time when Chrome was advancing primarily in performance.

nnethercote on Aug 29, 2012 [–]

I'm a Mozilla employeed, and I think it's fair to say that Chrome's presence caused us to increase the focus on Firefox performance. E.g. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy.

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