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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
MilesAhead:
It would have been handy to have had it a while back when Firefox used to hang alot (at least for me).
-dantheman (May 04, 2016, 08:44 PM)
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It must be my turn. :) It sure hangs for me. Not frozen forever. Just sits unresponsive for a variable number of seconds. Then the keystrokes and mouse clicks will be processed. It is really annoying. Sometimes I have to claw the scrollbar 10 times to get the page to scroll down. It is not waiting for the page to load. It just ignores the mouse/keyboard until it feels like processing the window messages.
Chrome based browsers seem a bit more responsive but I can find my battery level going down due to running a dozen processes to do one thing. No happy medium it seems. I seem to remember FF 30+ working fine. Somewhere along the line they broke it.
Edit: Maybe I should switch back to x86. Not that it makes much difference as far as the hangs go. But maybe the AddOn will work. :)
Edit2: x86 seems to work fine with it. It survived both a log off and back on, and a reboot. :Thmbsup:
MilesAhead:
Start delay while extension display their buttons. For example since FF is my default browser if I start it just by launching a URL there can be a 30 second or longer delay. Even if I start to a blank page I cannot type anything into the address bar until the extensions are done displaying the buttons.
I tried putting the buttons on the status bar instead but it seems to make no difference.
Anyone know a work-around that would let FF navigate right away and load the buttons afterward?
dantheman:
Can we ask how many addons you have Miles?
I've learned over the years to keep them to a minimum.
Temptation is strong though!
Perhaps Speedyfox can be of assistance?
dantheman:
Btw, if you can try Fx out on Linux - just to see if there would be any difference.
MilesAhead:
Can we ask how many addons you have Miles?
I've learned over the years to keep them to a minimum.
Temptation is strong though!
Perhaps Speedyfox can be of assistance?
-dantheman (May 06, 2016, 12:51 PM)
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More to the point I think is the number of buttons. Flag in address bar, toolbar has Reader, fast dial, ublock, wot. Statusbar has Statusbarx, textarea cache, color toggle, Not many! I have trouble doing without a Fast Dial type of addon and I know it likely slows it down the most. Bummer. :)
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