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

[Don Tai]

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 at 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 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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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