Shipping smaller installers is a win, and we already do this on
Fennec. (The only files that get modified currently are .properties
files, which have their comment lines stripped.) We don't minify JS
files at the moment due to needing to have a larger conversation around
debuggability of JS, and because the setup for minifying needs more love
for non-Android platforms.
Just doing this, however, wins about 400k of on-disk space and ~100k
installer size, so it seems like a reasonable first step.
Nathan Froyd
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