• AProfessional@lemmy.world
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    Dark reader is one of the heaviest extensions you use, lots of dom modifications. It also passes around far too much data between processes.

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      lots of dom modifications

      That’s good to know. These modifications are needed to replace the style sheet details, I guess?

      passes around far too much data between processes.

      What does this mean? Do you have a link where I could read up on the details? Thanks.

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        Webextensions get their own webprocess as well as running in the website. I don’t have a link but if you read their source they just pass a lot of data to their process to determine things (last i looked some years ago).

        There is a trade off of executing more things on the site vs transferring a lot of data. Either way it’s a heavy extension.