I also like to use QuickJava to manually (as in snail) disable JS/Java/Flash/etc. (Side-note: the same idea is around in Opera Browser's On-demand plugin or ODP since 2010.) (From Hennes' answer!)įrom vasa1's comment: the plugins.click_to_play setting in about:config can be used to disable plugins (flash/java/etc.) until you click on a placeholder icon. RequestPolicy is explicitly for cross-site request control. and has the same side-effects on CPU time. Ghostery is for privacy what Adblock is for ads, blacklisting tracking, statistics, etc. The following ones are mostly duplicated from other answers:Īdblock is also good as it blacklists many flash ads, cross-site requests, javascripts. Many addons fast up Firefox as a side-effect.
It suspends actions in background tabsīy Wladimir Palant, the author of Adblock Plus.
The Verge, in its coverage of Peterson’s tweet, shared a side-by-side comparison of the Chrome and Firefox versions of YouTube, and the latter browser’s slow load times are noticeable.This is an experimental extension to save CPU (battery) time and make That’s a lot of tech jargon, but it basically means that browsers like Firefox and Microsoft Edge are running on old YouTube technology, and the video site’s performance is suffering as a result. Peterson noted a “deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API,” implemented in the Chrome version of the redesigned YouTube, has not yet come to Firefox, resulting in the slowdown. Chris Peterson, the technical program manager at Mozilla, noted in a tweet that YouTube runs five times faster on Chrome than it does on Mozilla’s Firefox browser. While that new layout is up and running on Google Chrome, it hasn’t been working so well on competing web browsers, and an exec who works for one of Chrome’s main rivals recently called Google out for that inconsistency. Over a year ago, YouTube began rolling out a redesigned version of its platform that brought it more in line with Google’s overarching “material design” philosophy.
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