Why is Firefox so slow (and degrades over time)?

[Michael Butash]

I've said the same thing lately for Chromium, seems most websites are 
suddenly "broken" as far as scripting lately since the 30-ish train of 
chromium.  I started using actual Chrome, which seems *better*, but 
sadly I'm finding myself having to go to firefox to even render/use 
various sites lately.  Seeing this isn't encouraging...  I can never 
tell now how much is the site being broken, slow, or my browser being 
simply weird.

Anyone else seeing this?  Wondering if there was like a fundamental 
change that goes against modern trends in (highly) scripted sites in 
chrome derivitives.

The sad trend is every site I encounter wants to pack my browser with 
scripts from 20 different sites, and notscript/ghostery/adblock catches 
them all, making it even harder to know what is or isn't actually my 
issue.  I just refuse to *not* run them, as who knows what kind of 
things they're doing to track/infect me.

Almost need to sandbox a vm with snapshots as a honeypot just to read 
the news, expecting to be infected by legit sites with tracking cookies 
and scripts, or worse.

-mb


On 04/30/2014 07:07 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> I have the same issue on both Win7 and Linux.
>
> Misery loves company ;)
>
> I suspect that part of my problem is all of the (expletive deleted)
> nepomuk and akonadi garbage that most Linux distributions now seem to
> force on us.  I have tried to kill off all that garbage, but it continues
> to keep resurfacing and haunting me and I don't know how to totally
> destroy it.
>
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