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Out of curiosity, do either of you run uBlock Origin to help block misbehaving background stuff, or any other plugins that might contribute to battery usage?
by jasonkostempski 8y ago
Out of curiosity, do either of you run uBlock Origin to help block misbehaving background stuff, or any other plugins that might contribute to battery usage?
- mywittyname 8y agoNoScript really accelerates performance on my FF install. Places like Buzzfeed are unusable on my laptop without it. Excessive JS usage is probably the culprit behind the move to Chrome. A number of popular sites are so packed with JS that using Chrome is the only way for normal users to achieve reasonable performance.
- organicmultiloc 8y agoNowadays every webpage downloads 2 megabytes of framework JS and css preprocessors and analytics trackers and then pegs the CPU for a few milliseconds to display a paragraph of text. If the page actually does anything on top of that the problem grows quickly.