Hold my tea for me; I'm about to dive into Mozilla's CVS history. Wheeeeeeᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉ
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@snorp looked at that not too long ago
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and if I remember correctly the conclusion was that we should be doing paint throttling, not paint suppression
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yeah, but it also didn't really seem to help much in most cases :/
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Replying to @snorp @blassey @mike_conley
Was the original rationale for paint suppression to improve pageload metrics by avoiding dynamic changes?

Dec 16, 2016 · 4:48 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @blassey @mike_conley
mostly it's just that painting takes time that could otherwise be used to load the rest of the page
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