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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	11 Jul 2016 11:36
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I've used this for years but am reluctantly trying a few others now. I know that many of the world's so-called web developers shovel functions, videos, and assorted piles of crap into pages like kids with buckets of pick-n-mix, but Firefox just seems incapable of handling the web these days. It's getting worse and there seems no motivation from Mozilla to fix it. For instance, has anyone ever, anywhere, found that the slow/stopped script dialog works? Or does anything other than instantly make things worse? Other browsers also suffer, but none seem quite so prone to fail as Firefox. I recently moved to the enterprise ESR version in the hope that this might help. It's marginally better, but still miles behind Chrome for instance. never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	11 Jul 2016 11:39
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	2 of 11

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I get that a lot in Firefox on Google Maps. A

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	11 Jul 2016 14:19
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The Independent site is almost unusable some days. never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	11 Jul 2016 14:46
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ABP suddenly stopped working in my Chrome/Android 5.5x, so I have switched to Firefox. It seems quite a bit faster. I have noticed the FF script problem(s) on desktops though. I think it may be something like a memory leak, because if I restart the browser it goes away and gradually comes back over the next few hours. Also made worse if I am doing script dev with lots of reloads (I use tenfourfox on an old powermac). driver killed while using autopilot was watching Harry Potter

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	11 Jul 2016 15:40
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	5 of 11

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I was wondering about some kind of memory leak. On the few occasions I've bothered to check, Firefox is hogging several GBs when the problem occurs. I've only recently started trying Firefox with Android and still (rather lazily) just use Chrome as that's what the phone came with. I'll try it a bit more. never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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From:	Voltane	11 Jul 2016 18:00
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	6 of 11

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The only time I see it is on Android when I'm using Twitter. But then I don't really venture outside the few sites I like.

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From:	koswix	11 Jul 2016 18:02
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	7 of 11

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Making the most of your retirement, eh?


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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	11 Jul 2016 18:06
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I spent far more time on the internet at work. never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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From:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	11 Jul 2016 21:03
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Don't use ABP, use uBlock Origin. (Whatever device or browser you're on.) Also consider uMatrix to block all scripts and resources and then selectively enable only the ones you need. (It can be a bit of a pain when visiting new domains, but it helps massively with preventing unnecessary crap from clogging your browser+connection and you soon get used to figuring out what's essential/useful/unnecessary when a site doesn't work.) `3.1415P265E589T932E846R64338`

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From:	koswix	11 Jul 2016 22:41
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	10 of 11

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I switched to ublock a while ago and find it a tad aggressive, and the ui isn't very intuitive.

Haven't yet worked out a quick and simple way to add a site to a white list, or to selectively re-enable elements on a page.


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From:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	11 Jul 2016 23:24
To:	koswix	11 of 11

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Change your filter selection if it's too aggressive.

Four clicks to get to the Whitelist section might be annoying if it was a regular feature, but I think I may have used it once or twice tops, so... *shrug*

If it bugs you that much: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues

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