Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 07:53:32 -0400 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox became much slower Message-ID: <2a876438-5670-af9a-6e4f-69669a524a9e@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <141c60d0-4fd1-af47-6466-43b604865109@madpilot.net> References: <CALH631nS3epBAXG7cAVz3R=iNLtVRXXWc567YLSKwD88f7btNQ@mail.gmail.com> <2a63930c-6a05-534d-942a-fa9201443b89@columbus.rr.com> <141c60d0-4fd1-af47-6466-43b604865109@madpilot.net>
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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
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