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Is this really true ? I would love to experiment this if I can have longer laptop battery life by disabling JS.

• kronusaturn 14y ago
  It's true, and you can.
• Groxx 14y ago
  CSS overrides to get rid of box shadows and rounded corners can also make a significant difference in scrolling speed. Essentially every browser out now lets you define a user css file, just include something like: * { box-shadow: none !important; border-radius: 0 !important; } etc. YMMV, and you may have to include the corner / browser specific variants, I forget the details. Box shadows with a large spread still perform terrifyingly poorly in browsers, though small ones tend to be fast enough to not notice on modern machines.
  • pasbesoin 14y ago
    Bookmarklets can do such things on a case by case basis, for any adjustments you don't want to commit universally (via user.css).