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Re:Firefox dropped below the 10% share value on Netmarketshare by jasonkostempski on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:06AM (#17255055)
Out of curiosity, do either of you run uBlock Origin to help block misbehaving background stuff, or any other plugins that might contribute to battery usage?
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Re:Firefox dropped below the 10% share value on Netmarketshare by mywittyname on Thursday June 07, 2018 @08:32AM (#17255171)
NoScript really accelerates performance on my FF install. Places like Buzzfeed are unusable on my laptop without it.

Excessive JS usage is probably the culprit behind the move to Chrome. A number of popular sites are so packed with JS that using Chrome is the only way for normal users to achieve reasonable performance.

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Re:Firefox dropped below the 10% share value on Netmarketshare by organicmultiloc on Thursday June 07, 2018 @09:27AM (#17255548)
Nowadays every webpage downloads 2 megabytes of framework JS and css preprocessors and analytics trackers and then pegs the CPU for a few milliseconds to display a paragraph of text.

If the page actually does anything on top of that the problem grows quickly.

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