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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Regarding the recent Firefox update that has been the subject of much recent ranting, is it just me or does it seem like this new "faster" version Firefox is actually slower? Seems like sites that used to load pretty quickly, such as ebay, take a lot longer. Even Mobileread, which isn't loaded with pictures, sometimes loads more slowly than it used to, while I sit there watching the little dot in the tab header going back and forth....
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I maintain several versions of Firefox, with separate profiles to let me run more than one at a time. (Start FF as "firefox -no-remote -p <profilename>" to do that, with the shortcut pointing to the specific version of firefox you want to run. "-no-remote" is what lets you run more than one instance at a time, as long as each is using a different profile.)
I downgraded to Firefox Extended Support release, based on v52.5, to give me headroom in continuing to use the 40+ "legacy" extensions I ran, all of which would no longer work in Firefox 57. I have Firefox 57 and Firefox Developer edition (currently at v58.8) with a profile that only uses new style extensions based on the WebExtensions API. Enough of what my old extensions did is now available in Web Extensions versions that I can use Firefox 57 as production browser, and I've largely shifted.
Here, FF 57
is noticeably faster, in invocation and use. It's faster than Firefox ESR, and faster than current Google Chrome. MS Edge still
invokes faster, since it's essentially an OS built-in, not a layered product, but I don't care because I don't hop in and out. I start FF when I sit down at the computer and leave it running in the background. FF 57 does seem to be a bit faster in operation than Edge, but I haven't done a lot of testing, as I seldom use Edge.
As mentioned elsewhere, you are as fast as what you are talking to and your internet connection. My pipe is a 100mbit/second cable modem connection, and I see quite acceptable speeds.
Another question is what extensions are in the mix. I run uBlock Origin, as a general purpose blocker. I stopped running NoScript a while back, and don't run things like AdBlock Plus. (I dropped NoScript because the labor involved in figuring out what to whitelist in uBlock
and NoScript became more than I felt like doing. Big commercial sites that might laod stuff from 30 or more external sites were nightmares to get working as expected. I'm not fanatical about blocking ads - I simply want site to be readable - and I have layered defenses and am not paranoid about scripting. (All major browsers have been steadily curtailing what JavaScript is permitted to do in any case. In particular, it can't affect the local machine.)
What sort of machine is Firefox running on, what is your network connection bandwidth, and what extensions are in your mix?
One thing you might try is running Firefox in Safe Mode, which disables all extensions, and see if it makes a difference. If it does, process of elimination will let you determine which extension might be gumming up the works.
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Dennis