Comment on How do Chrome extensions impact browser performance?parentComments−Santosh835yIt could've been cached once and used repeatedly if only the Web had not become so hostile that browsers were forced to enforce same-origin...−iaml5yWhat makes you think that it's being loaded over the network? It's most likely loading it from fs directly.−capableweb5yParsing a blob that huge does impact performance though.−iaml5yIt does, but caching/same-origin policies wouldn't change anything in this case.
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It could've been cached once and used repeatedly if only the Web had not become so hostile that browsers were forced to enforce same-origin...
What makes you think that it's being loaded over the network? It's most likely loading it from fs directly.
Parsing a blob that huge does impact performance though.
It does, but caching/same-origin policies wouldn't change anything in this case.