Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 12:40:53 +0100 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox became much slower Message-ID: <141c60d0-4fd1-af47-6466-43b604865109@madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <2a63930c-6a05-534d-942a-fa9201443b89@columbus.rr.com> References: <CALH631nS3epBAXG7cAVz3R=iNLtVRXXWc567YLSKwD88f7btNQ@mail.gmail.com> <2a63930c-6a05-534d-942a-fa9201443b89@columbus.rr.com>
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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. -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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