Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:18:33 +0100 From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox became much slower Message-ID: <163f8846-fed9-f09d-c4a7-c3a25477e8d5@freebsd.org> 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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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
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