firefox slow rendering (e.g. wikipedia)

[Scott van Looy]

Today Clodoaldo did spake thusly:

> 2006/11/30, taharka <res00vl8 at alltel.net>:
>> How do,
>> 
>> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:28 -0200, Clodoaldo wrote:
>> > 2006/11/30, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com>:
>> > > Okay, I've had this problem for a while and I'm beginning
>> > > to wonder why.
>> > >
>> > > Firefox sometimes responds very slowly, especially when
>> > > rendering Wikipedia and a few other pages (mostly wikis
>> > > actually). I don't mean connecting to the internet, I mean
>> > > responding to the user; e.g. I run a mouse gestures
>> > > extension which can become unusable with a couple
>> > > of Wikipedia tabs open. Booting the same machine into
>> > > Windows Me and running Firefox I don't have this problem.
>> > > System is FC5, Athlon 1.3GHz, 1GB RAM, GeForce 3 Ti200
>> > > with Nvidia drivers.
>> > >
>> > > So:
>> > > Does anyone else have this problem?
>> >
>> > I have. Any site javascript intensive makes FF consume 100% CPU for a
>> > few seconds at each click. Gmail is one of them.
>> 
>> So, how bout installing the noscript extension & enabling javascript for
>> sites where it is absolutely necessary?
>> 
>
> You are a genius. What a wonderful solution. I each site i just go to
> Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Enable JavaScript. And them wait for
> each click or page scroll. I have a better one: Why not just use Opera
> in instead of FF? This one is much better: If you have nothing worth
> to say why don't you just shut up?

Or, alternatively, why don't you bite the hand that helps you?
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/

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