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While I want to, performance is always an issue and has been for a period of years, 5+ or more. I'm talking my entire system gets taken out for minutes by one

While I want to, performance is always an issue and has been for a period of years, 5+ or more. I'm talking my entire system gets taken out for minutes by one pages' shitty javascript. Even then, I'm not even sure if it's the pages fault or a plugin, or firefox itself. Surely I'm not the exception to an application that everyone else seems to have no issue with?

CJefferson 7y ago
Honestly, something is up with your system if that is a regular occurrence in Firefox. Try doing a full reset, delete all your configs and extensions. Then run plain Firefox with no extensions for a while, and see if that behaves well. If not, something serious is up and you should try reporting it to the Firefox bugzilla if you can repeat it. If that works fine, something was up in your config, or extensions. Once I found someone had gone into the internal Firefox config settings and changes something years ago, forgotten it, and it was now causing serious performance problems.
timw4mail 7y ago
Extensions/Addons are also running Javascript, so they can definitely be a factor in how responsive the browser is. Chrome is slightly better at utilizing every computing resource available, but that also means that it is more resource-intensive. Now, every once in a while, I do experience Firefox being unresponsive. Restarting the browser always fixes that, even with the same browsing session. I haven't experienced Firefox locking up the entire system, except with really low resource computers (like Netbooks, or < 4GB of Ram).