Why is FoxyProxy a larger download compared to other Firefox proxy extensions?
FoxyProxy is carefully crafted by a professional software developer with over 15 years of industry experience. It has no code bloat. The size of FoxyProxy 2.3, 263 kilobytes, has three explanations: • FoxyProxy 2.8.5 supports 27 languages (“locales”). Due to a limitation of Firefox, you must download and install all languages even if you only need one of them. Don’t be concerned, however: at runtime, Firefox only loads YOUR locale into memory. Because of this, FoxyProxy’s memory footprint is quite small even though the download might be considered large for a Firefox extension. Compare language support of some popular Firefox proxy extensions: ExtensionLanguages SupportedSize in KB FoxyProxy 2.322263 SwitchProxy 1.4.1664 TorButton 1.0.4326 xyzproxy 0.91318 ProxyTex 0.1114 ProxyButton 0.1.8112 QuickProxy 2006.10.0919 If, for example, you use Firefox in English (en-US locale), 195 kilobytes of FoxyProxy never load into memory. You can, in fact, delete the 21 unused locales/languages (195
