Consider moving some code used by µBlock.URI to platform-specific side

[gorhill]

Firefox has utilities to parse URL and extract effective domain names using the public suffix list.

Not sure but I am assuming this is faster than the current JS-based solution. So if we move that code to vAPI, Firefox would gain something while the other platforms (Chromium/Safari) would just still rely on the current solution.

But first I would like to find out whether there is a clear gain in using nsIEffectiveTLDService.getBaseDomainFromHost over publicsuffixlist.js.

[chrisaljoudi]

It's unclear whether nsIEffectiveTLDService is supported/works at all in Firefox (I get a deprecation warning when trying code from the documentation you linked) — followed by an error.

[gorhill]

Well I ran some quick benchmark and that made no difference. Closing.