Firefox became much slower

[Guido Falsi]

On 11/01/2017 12:53, Baho Utot wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/01/17 07:40, Guido Falsi wrote:
>> On 11/01/2017 12:15, Baho Utot wrote:
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>>> 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


Mine was just a suggestion since I am quite fine using noscript 
(whitelisting selected sites) and also using plugins to aggressively 
limit cookies and referer. So really, I did not want to impose anything 
on you.

As usual YMMV.

Just for completeness:

Whitelisting sites you actually use works fine and helps in making 
firefox faster and more secure, because most sites include third party 
scripts (for advertising usually) which are not required for the site 
functionality, so it also makes it faster reducing the actual number of 
running scripts.

Other browsers too get snappier when disabling unneeded scripts.


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Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>