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		jlgreco on March 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should w... I'm not sure what he said, but I assume he said something about Electrolysis. Didn't they ditch Electrolysis because of issues with many nsplugins? I am not aware of other reasons it was shitcanned.

gcp on March 5, 2013 [–]

Plugins and add-ons AFAIK. There are also memory/performance implications, which apparently were not insignificant on mobile platforms. Given that Chrome uses more memory than Firefox, it's perhaps not insignificant on desktop either.

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