Firefox became much slower

[Baho Utot]

On 11/01/17 07:40, Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 11/01/2017 12:15, Baho Utot wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/01/17 02:07, Gleb Popov wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I'm using Firefox on quite ancient machine (amd64, though) and after
>>> updating from firefox-56.0.1_3 to 56.0.2_3,1 it has become much more
>>> sluggish - whole UI hangs during page loading, scrolling isn't smooth
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> Anyone also see this?
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>> Yep FF is starting to get on my nerves.  Javascript brings it to it's knees
> 
> Most sites make an unreasonable use of javascript though. The recent
> news about sites and CDNs leveraging javascript to mine bitcoins make
> things even worse.
> 
> My personal suggestion is to use noscript, most sites work quite fine
> without javascript and even more sites work fine by allowing only a few
> origins, but blocking dozens of third party scripts.
> 

Noscript results in sites not working, ever try youtube