Open Bug 1381707 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Allow creating remote windowless browser, and use for background pages

Categories

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: kmag, Assigned: kmag)

References

(Blocks 2 open bugs)

Details

The extra docshell we create to host the <browser> elements for our background page is fairly expensive, both in terms of startup time and memory. We should be able to create a windowless frameLoader host fairly easily, and use that directly, instead.
Priority: -- → P2
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions
Priority: P2 → P3

concentrating on service worker work for V3.

Severity: normal → S3
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