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Most of the extensions I use have been ported, but after just a day or two, I started to hit real performance issues again. Maybe the answer is contained in th

Most of the extensions I use have been ported, but after just a day or two, I started to hit real performance issues again. Maybe the answer is contained in this statement?

djsumdog 9y ago
uBlock Origin, TreeStyleTabs, Reddit Enhancement Suit (I should just disable that; stopped using Reddit after their CEO edited comments and their warrant canary got removed), Open In Browser and Mega. Only thee of those are active on more than one website. If Web Extensions are suppose to be this great improvement for security and performance, extensions themselves shouldn't matter, or should at least show up in about:performance if there are issues.
- sliverstorm 9y ago
  Despite being one of the best adblockers, uBO is a small but noticeable performance hit to me- it's still worth it though. Nature of the beast I suspect.
  - gorhill 9y ago
    Can you be more specific about "noticeable performance hit"? A whole lot of work has been done to avoid "noticeable performance hit", so I would be curious about a reproducible case for this to find out the cause.
    - sliverstorm 9y ago
      Hey, you are the developer aren't you :) I will attempt to come up with a test case. Mostly I just noticed when resetting Firefox or with a new install, "hey this is snappier than usual" until I install uBO. Not sure if it's resources, UI responsiveness, or rendering speed. uBO is awesome, and I appreciate all the work.
      - gorhill 9y ago
        I thought you had hard data backing up your claim. Frankly I am quite skeptical at any unspecific "noticeable performance hit" claim. uBO's overhead is typically in the low milliseconds range, which amount to noise-level overhead really when compared to everything else occurring at page download/rendering time. See https://twitter.com/adildean/status/936183316134416384 https://twitter.com/adildean/status/936183316134416384
        sliverstorm 9y ago
        Well, I went straight to Facebook as it's got a lot of ads, and disabling uBO does appear to speed up the "long tail" load of FB. I'm not complaining, and if you're confident in your overhead times feel free to disregard. Just unscientific observations. I still love uBO and use it across the board.

Most of the extensions I use have been ported, but after just a day or two, I started to hit real performance issues again. Maybe the answer is contained in this statement?

djsumdog 9y ago

uBlock Origin, TreeStyleTabs, Reddit Enhancement Suit (I should just disable that; stopped using Reddit after their CEO edited comments and their warrant canary got removed), Open In Browser and Mega. Only thee of those are active on more than one website. If Web Extensions are suppose to be this great improvement for security and performance, extensions themselves shouldn't matter, or should at least show up in about:performance if there are issues.

sliverstorm 9y ago
Despite being one of the best adblockers, uBO is a small but noticeable performance hit to me- it's still worth it though. Nature of the beast I suspect.
- gorhill 9y ago
  Can you be more specific about "noticeable performance hit"? A whole lot of work has been done to avoid "noticeable performance hit", so I would be curious about a reproducible case for this to find out the cause.
  - sliverstorm 9y ago
    Hey, you are the developer aren't you :) I will attempt to come up with a test case. Mostly I just noticed when resetting Firefox or with a new install, "hey this is snappier than usual" until I install uBO. Not sure if it's resources, UI responsiveness, or rendering speed. uBO is awesome, and I appreciate all the work.
    - gorhill 9y ago
      I thought you had hard data backing up your claim. Frankly I am quite skeptical at any unspecific "noticeable performance hit" claim. uBO's overhead is typically in the low milliseconds range, which amount to noise-level overhead really when compared to everything else occurring at page download/rendering time. See https://twitter.com/adildean/status/936183316134416384 https://twitter.com/adildean/status/936183316134416384
      - sliverstorm 9y ago
        Well, I went straight to Facebook as it's got a lot of ads, and disabling uBO does appear to speed up the "long tail" load of FB. I'm not complaining, and if you're confident in your overhead times feel free to disregard. Just unscientific observations. I still love uBO and use it across the board.