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Really? You're the first person I've heard that doesn't have that problem. My Firefox gets quite slow on both my home and work computers¹ at ~40+ tabs. The tab

by PeCaN 10y ago

Really? You're the first person I've heard that doesn't have that problem. My Firefox gets quite slow on both my home and work computers¹ at ~40+ tabs. The tab groups extension (which they removed from core, I guess to make room for Pocket and Hello²) does make managing lots of tabs much easier however. I regularly have to clean out my tabs or switching takes several seconds. I currently have 37 tabs open and Firefox is using ~800MB of RAM. Basically, either you're doing something really magical with your Firefox, or are just spewing bullshit. Someone's going to say its the fault of extensions (what good is Firefox without extensions, anyway) so let's see: - Decentraleyes (locally emulates CDNs) - HTTPS Everywhere (why is this not the default behavior?) - OverbiteFF (support for the gopher protocol) - Perapera (Mandarin word splitting and Mandarin↔English dictionary) - Pinboard (I can't imagine this uses any significant resources whatsoever) - Random Agent Spoofer (change user agent at random) - Reddit Enhancement Suite - Tab Groups (I miss when tab panorama was default, but I can see why it's an extension) - uBlock Origin - uMatrix (possibly my single favorite Firefox extension; control JS and more, like NoScript on steroids and easier to use) - VimFx That's… actually quite a lot. I wonder if extensions alone are my problem, but then again Firefox without extensions isn't much better than Edge (and Edge seems faster on average). I don't think I've tweaked any settings in about:config. Is that enough details about my setup for people to help fix it? Anecdotally complaints about how slow Firefox is seem fairly common. I think your last paragraph is a bit off the mark. -- 1. Both Windows 10 Pro; 16GB/32GB of RAM respectively; both 4GHz i7-4790k; anyway, point is they're pretty good computers. 2. Kidding, but fuck Mozilla

minitech 10y ago
> - Decentraleyes (locally emulates CDNs) has to intercept every request > - HTTPS Everywhere (why is this not the default behavior?) has to intercept every request > - OverbiteFF (support for the gopher protocol) might have to intercept every request, and why do you need this > - Random Agent Spoofer (change user agent at random) has to intercept every request > - uBlock Origin has to intercept every request > - uMatrix (possibly my single favorite Firefox extension; control JS and more, like NoScript on steroids and easier to use) has to intercept every request Stop installing so many stupid extensions. Random UA switching is especially pointless; “Decentraleyes” is a close runner-up. Firefox has performance problems, but I think you’re definitely seeing extension bloat if you have that kind of device.
- PeCaN 10y ago
  So you're saying running some triggers when a request is made causes Firefox to use a ton of RAM and switch tabs slowly. Okay, I'm not exactly sure how that works, but I haven't poked around Firefox a lot. > > - OverbiteFF (support for the gopher protocol) > might have to intercept every request, and why do you need this You probably never thought of this, but because I use gopher. > > - Random Agent Spoofer (change user agent at random) > has to intercept every request …No, it doesn't (actually, it just changes some browser settings on a timer). > Random UA switching is especially pointless; “Decentraleyes” is a close runner-up. Ah, excuse me for caring about privacy. In summary, you didn't actually look anything up, points for trying though.
- artificial 10y ago
  It's hardly stupidity. You're discovering different people have different priorities and that privacy is valued by some more than others.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    >It's hardly stupidity. You're discovering different people have different priorities and that privacy is valued by some more than others. Those BS plugins do very little for actual privacy (and even less if one is actually a target) and very much for CPU/memory.
  - minitech 10y ago
    I’m someone who also values privacy, but a few of the extensions in question almost certainly don’t offer enough value for their cost. Random UA switching makes you more fingerprintable. And this all on Windows 10…

by PeCaN 10y ago

minitech 10y ago

> - Decentraleyes (locally emulates CDNs) has to intercept every request > - HTTPS Everywhere (why is this not the default behavior?) has to intercept every request > - OverbiteFF (support for the gopher protocol) might have to intercept every request, and why do you need this > - Random Agent Spoofer (change user agent at random) has to intercept every request > - uBlock Origin has to intercept every request > - uMatrix (possibly my single favorite Firefox extension; control JS and more, like NoScript on steroids and easier to use) has to intercept every request Stop installing so many stupid extensions. Random UA switching is especially pointless; “Decentraleyes” is a close runner-up. Firefox has performance problems, but I think you’re definitely seeing extension bloat if you have that kind of device.

PeCaN 10y ago
So you're saying running some triggers when a request is made causes Firefox to use a ton of RAM and switch tabs slowly. Okay, I'm not exactly sure how that works, but I haven't poked around Firefox a lot. > > - OverbiteFF (support for the gopher protocol) > might have to intercept every request, and why do you need this You probably never thought of this, but because I use gopher. > > - Random Agent Spoofer (change user agent at random) > has to intercept every request …No, it doesn't (actually, it just changes some browser settings on a timer). > Random UA switching is especially pointless; “Decentraleyes” is a close runner-up. Ah, excuse me for caring about privacy. In summary, you didn't actually look anything up, points for trying though.
artificial 10y ago
It's hardly stupidity. You're discovering different people have different priorities and that privacy is valued by some more than others.
- coldtea 10y ago
  >It's hardly stupidity. You're discovering different people have different priorities and that privacy is valued by some more than others. Those BS plugins do very little for actual privacy (and even less if one is actually a target) and very much for CPU/memory.
- minitech 10y ago
  I’m someone who also values privacy, but a few of the extensions in question almost certainly don’t offer enough value for their cost. Random UA switching makes you more fingerprintable. And this all on Windows 10…