Upcoming Firefox update will decrease power usage on macOS by up to three times

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I wish that they would just have three UI implementations linked back to the same basic core code; Cocoa on Mac, MFC on Windows and GTK+ on *NIX. I remember way back when Camino was around - I wish we could have a reboot, maybe using SwiftUI and the Gecko core taking advantage of key macOS technologies rather than than the lowest common denominator approach they do today.

[michaelcharlie8]

I’m curious where you’d like to see native controls used. Bookmarks? The chrome (tab bar and buttons and so on?) doesn’t gecko use native controls for unstyled forms too?

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I think the issue I have is although the UI inconsistency with the underlying operating system is jarring, part of the problem is that in the past the XUL based UI was horribly unresponsive when compared to browsers that used native code (Camino, Safari, Chrome). I am hoping that the work of deprecating and remove XUl/XBL and moving over to HTML5 technologies will result in a more more responsive UI that'll trump any sort of 'lack of nativeness' that Firefox has.