firefox slow rendering (e.g. wikipedia)

[Clodoaldo]

2006/11/30, Scott van Looy <scott at ethosuk.org.uk>:
> 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/

Could you elaborate on how that fixes FF slowness on javaScript sites?
To make it clear: I need Gmail *with* javaScript enabled. Blocking
javaScript is not a solution when javaScript is necessary or just nice
to have.

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