How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance

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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