[GTALUG] "a web page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop that page."

[Mauro Souza]

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 at 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.
>
>
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> > On 12/22/2021 3:32 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at 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?
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