How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance

Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by visarga on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:59AM (#23537690)

Cool, but it doesn't matter that no-extension is much faster because we can't browse without ad blocking. Even if it slows the page, it is still preferable. On the other hand ad blocking wastes less bandwidth and memory.

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Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by laurent123456 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:04AM (#23537721)

I don't think you read the graph right. Without ad-blocking extensions, the browser is of course much slower, about 15 times slower according to their tests.

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Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by jeffbee on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:25AM (#23540246)

The chosen site for that test is basically a worst-case. It uses a local TV news site. These are all cesspits. They have banners, auto-playing videos, popovers, clickjacking, the works.

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Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by londons_explore on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:19AM (#23537805)

I am doubtful of some of the numbers here... I mean I know browsing the web without an ad blocker is bad, but it isn't 'takes 35 seconds to load an article on gigabit ethernet' bad....

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Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by smichel17 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:45AM (#23537996)

That was a graph of cpu time, not network request time, and 20s of the 30s were spent parsing and running js.

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Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by cornedor on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:05AM (#23537731)

> DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials reduces the CPU time of the article page from 31s to just 1.6s. All other tested extensions also bring CPU time down to at most 10s.

It doesn't even slow down the pages, the opposite is true here.

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