Chrome based browsers have µBlock[1] and µMatrix[2] extensions to mitigate this very issue of hogging resources. Unfortunately these are not ported to Firefox y

Chrome based browsers have µBlock[1] and µMatrix[2] extensions to mitigate this very issue of hogging resources. Unfortunately these are not ported to Firefox yet. EDIT: Links to source code for both [1]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock [2]https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix