"a web page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop that page."
I get this message when I read the Globe and Mail with Firefox on my Fedora 35 desktop. How can I figure out the cause?
There are probably folks on this list who know a lot more of this subject that I do. But, I'd start with opening up Firefox developer tools (press F12). The "Performance" tab lets you record a profile showing the time spent on the various JavaScript function calls and DOM events. You could also take a memory snapshot and see what on the page is consuming large amounts of memory. This will give you fairly low-level information, which may or may not be useful or easy to interpret. If you don't have tracking protection turned on (I think it's on by default in Firefox), you could try turning that on: perhaps one of the tracking scripts is taking a lot of CPU resources.
On 12/22/2021 3:32 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I get this message when I read the Globe and Mail with Firefox on my Fedora 35 desktop.
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I usually have NoScript running and blocking everything, so most trackers don't run. I have ublock to, it helps! On Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 19:45 Stefan Kloppenborg via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
There are probably folks on this list who know a lot more of this subject that I do. But, I'd start with opening up Firefox developer tools (press F12). The "Performance" tab lets you record a profile showing the time spent on the various JavaScript function calls and DOM events. You could also take a memory snapshot and see what on the page is consuming large amounts of memory. This will give you fairly low-level information, which may or may not be useful or easy to interpret.
If you don't have tracking protection turned on (I think it's on by default in Firefox), you could try turning that on: perhaps one of the tracking scripts is taking a lot of CPU resources.
On 12/22/2021 3:32 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I get this message when I read the Globe and Mail with Firefox on my Fedora 35 desktop.
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On Tor the G&M renders well with blocking. There should be no issues, and it loads quickly. G&M unblocked Tor for all pay articles a couple of months ago, convenient. On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 17:48, Mauro Souza via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I usually have NoScript running and blocking everything, so most trackers don't run. I have ublock to, it helps!
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021, 19:45 Stefan Kloppenborg via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
There are probably folks on this list who know a lot more of this subject that I do. But, I'd start with opening up Firefox developer tools (press F12). The "Performance" tab lets you record a profile showing the time spent on the various JavaScript function calls and DOM events. You could also take a memory snapshot and see what on the page is consuming large amounts of memory. This will give you fairly low-level information, which may or may not be useful or easy to interpret.
If you don't have tracking protection turned on (I think it's on by default in Firefox), you could try turning that on: perhaps one of the tracking scripts is taking a lot of CPU resources.
On 12/22/2021 3:32 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I get this message when I read the Globe and Mail with Firefox on my Fedora 35 desktop.
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I use Tor with the G&M. Tor is Firefox, and going through a whole bunch of servers, but i have no issues. Install and try Tor. The G&M does load a whole bunch of social media and javascript addons, that could be the issue.. Try the NoScript plugin and slowly find out which one of the javascript addons is causing the problem. On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 at 17:32, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I get this message when I read the Globe and Mail with Firefox on my Fedora 35 desktop.
How can I figure out the cause? --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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