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		jodrellblank on Feb 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now You say "it would be slow in any browser" but that's not true. It's fast in Edge and Chrome and slow in FireFox. > "then do a batch change operation" What would the 'batch change' be if not a loop over all the changes, making the changes one by one?

gramie on Feb 3, 2023 [–]

One possibility would be to create all the matching rows of the table in text (<tr><td>...</td></tr>), and then replace the contents of the table in one assignment. That's pretty fast, although I'm not sure about OP's case.

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