Firefox Alternative

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Tue Jul 5 07:25:36 UTC 2011


On 05/07/11 16:43, ANDY wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au 
> <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>     On 05/07/11 03:22, ANDY wrote:
>
>         I have the 'price hunting' extensions disabled unless I need
>         them, but
>         most of the rest are active and used regularly.
>
>
>     Now why would you want to do this?! Do they slow Firefox down?
>
>
> Except for launching Firefox, the several dozen extensions doesn't 
> seem to slow it down at all compared to safe-mode launches; my system 
> is only a 1.5 ghz.  I disable the 'price hunting' extensions just 
> because I use them rarely and don't need their persistent updates.

Aha. Thanks for this information. I'll keep it in mind when my Firefox 
appears to slow down.

BC

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