Reasonable addon startup time

Add-ons Development
#1

Hello,

Did some testing using about:startup and found my addon (Tab Groups Helper) startup times as follows:

firstPaint: 36 ms
firstLoadURI: 45 ms

20+ restarts with addon, compared to 20+ restarts baseline.

I am wondering if this sounds like a reasonable startup time for this addon. The addon is quite comprehensive with lots of features and functionality:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-helper/

Thanks…

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#2

First, that’s less than a tenth of a second, that’s likely great. If you’re concerned I’d suggest writing a shell addon (doesn’t do anything, just adds a button or the like) and see how long it takes, as I’m sure there is a baseline startup time for all addons.

#3

Super great of you to be concerned at that level. I actually never did this and will use this technique, s thanks for the topic!