Mozilla reveals Firefox plugins that slow down performance the most

By on Apr 4, 2011 at 9:33 PM
Software April 4, 2011

Web browsers always look to strike a balance between speed and functionality, but not enough focus on the former can easily spoil a user’s experience. Mozilla has put a great deal of time and effort working speed improvements into the latest version of its Firefox browser but sometimes all that hard work is for naught due to slow add-ons from third-party developers. In an effort to raise awareness and to push developers to optimize their plugins, perhaps, Mozilla has published a list of the add-ons that slow down Firefox the most. Among the worst offenders are FoxLingo, AniWeather, FoxyTunes and Xmarks Sync. In a bit of irony, an add-on called “FastestFox” that is supposed to speed up browsing by simplifying repetitive tasks is No.8 on Mozilla’s list. If you’ve been experiencing some slowness in Firefox and are wondering which add-ons might be the culprit, hit the read link for Mozilla’s complete list.

[Via Lifehacker]

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  • Lechero

    Heh! Firefox…. Thats why i use IE.

    (Sarcasm FYI)

    • Chut Pata

      LOL. Sarcasm enjoyed. Firefox looks like a Microsoft OS, you do not know what viruses, spywares, trojans, and malware are being run. As a mainframe user, I am used to knowing whatever is being run, so I use Chrome.

  • Anonymous

    “Windows.”

  • http://profiles.google.com/abigorbot Christine .

    So what if you don’t have ANY add ons and it’s bloated as hell? Yep.. new browser time.

  • Anonymous

    Firefox has a lot of memory leaks.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VNMZ67HA6QFEXTW5OXVSB4KDRM BillyBoy

    While Chrome is my current preferred browser (buggy but fast), in IE9 I noticed under it’s “Manage Add-ons” screen it shows the impact of plug-ins on both load times and navigation in hundredths of a second. I’ve got some HP Print thing adding .15s to my load times for example. I only noticed it a few days ago when IE9 popped-up a window warning me that one of my add-ons (I think it was an Adobe PDF add-on) was slowing it down and I was able to check some boxes to disable stuff. It is much faster than IE8, but I’ve been using Chrome for so long now that unless a site doesn’t work well with Chrome, I usually don’t use IE.

    • Anonymous

      That’s exactly how I am. I’ll always use Chrome but if something doesn’t work I go to IE9 as a backup.

  • Anonymous

    I just want to know where i can get a bigger version of the burning Fox picture above. It’s rad !!

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    that’s why i use Google Chrome

  • Little Web Wanderer

    Just found this while running a search for Foxytunes and “slows down browser”.  I suspected FT was the culprit but didn’t want to believe it.  Pity it’s up there with the worst.  I quite like it.  Thanks for the heads up. 

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