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What is "about:remote-newtab"?

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What is about:remote-newtab? What's the benefit of using it besides about:newtab?

What is about:remote-newtab? What's the benefit of using it besides about:newtab?

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This is about hosting the HTML/JS/CSS parts of the new tab page on a remote internet located server.

See this bug report:

  • bug 1176429 - (remote-hosted-newtab) [Meta] Make about:newtab remote

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html


Bug 1176429#c13

Actually, the only parts of newtab that will be remote will be the HTML/JS/CSS that runs it. The user data backing it remains in Firefox and the page is only injected with the data after it's been downloaded. This is much like how FHR works.
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This is about hosting the HTML/JS/CSS parts of the new tab page on a remote internet located server.

See this bug report:

  • bug 1176429 - (remote-hosted-newtab) [Meta] Make about:newtab remote

Please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html


Bug 1176429#c13

Actually, the only parts of newtab that will be remote will be the HTML/JS/CSS that runs it. The user data backing it remains in Firefox and the page is only injected with the data after it's been downloaded. This is much like how FHR works.