On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Maximilian Pichler <[email protected] > wrote:
> Hi, > > After upgrading to 5.9 (and thus Chromium 48 and Firefox 44) browser > performance seems degraded. Opening three different tabs with e.g. > newspaper websites results in a noticeable lag (up to several seconds) > when switching tabs or even just typing a URL into the address bar. > > My question is: In the current state of things is this "normal" or > does it indicate that something is wrong with my system? I've read > http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/firefox-vs-rthreads, but am not > sure whether what is described there accounts for this sort of > behavior. > > I'm aware that other browsers exist, but my question is specifically > about these two. > There has been a lot of discussion about browser performance on misc recently. I run 5.9 and use a Firefox extension called 'Noscript' that gives you fine-grained control over who gets to use javascript. It works well, though it is a bit of a pain when you go to a new site and have to tinker with it to allow the site to do its thing. I have not tried 'current', but again, there is discussion in the archives about internal changes (in the scheduler?) that have apparently improved things significantly in this area. You should check the misc archives yourself for the details; you might want to consider installing 'current' if turning javascript off and on is unappealing to you. /Don > > Thanks > > Max
