From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Nov 1 12:18:37 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CB3E59C2B for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2017 12:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from se@freebsd.org) Received: from mailout07.t-online.de (mailout07.t-online.de [194.25.134.83]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mailout00.t-online.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 883216BF21 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2017 12:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from se@freebsd.org) Received: from fwd09.aul.t-online.de (fwd09.aul.t-online.de [172.20.27.151]) by mailout07.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 658BA4256AFD for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:18:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from Stefans-MBP-2.fritz.box (VUiJnsZ18hPg+tRKoOOtOdQ9TCDqhXy5i2oC0IumJ4PbkPX26w8KDRjp1JYzIlJweE@[84.154.121.171]) by fwd09.t-online.de with (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) esmtp id 1e9ryc-1fb2NU0; Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:18:34 +0100 Subject: Re: Firefox became much slower To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <2a63930c-6a05-534d-942a-fa9201443b89@columbus.rr.com> <141c60d0-4fd1-af47-6466-43b604865109@madpilot.net> From: Stefan Esser Message-ID: <163f8846-fed9-f09d-c4a7-c3a25477e8d5@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:18:33 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <141c60d0-4fd1-af47-6466-43b604865109@madpilot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-ID: VUiJnsZ18hPg+tRKoOOtOdQ9TCDqhXy5i2oC0IumJ4PbkPX26w8KDRjp1JYzIlJweE X-TOI-MSGID: 73de483b-116b-4f57-aa64-7cafe3088625 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:18:37 -0000 Am 01.11.17 um 12:40 schrieb Guido Falsi: > 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. I used to use NoScript, but have switched to uMatrix, meanwhile. uMatrix has lots of pre-configured rules (blocks trackers and known malware sites), but I'm using it in conjunction with uBlock from the same developers. Both are available as "new-style" web-extensions and will continue to work with Firefox 57. Regards, STefan