How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance

Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by sa46 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:54PM (#23542000)

> I have to use LastPass.

I recently switched from LastPass to 1Password because of the added latency from Lastpass. Lastpass adds about 70ms to first contentful paint on example.com. 1Password, on the other hand, runs after the painting is done so it doesn't block rendering. I polished up a blog draft I had lying around about switching to 1Password: https://joe.schafer.dev/passing-lastpass/

> I'd be much more interested to see how extensions like Evernote or LastPass increase the time it takes for a real webpage (e.g. "nytimes.com") to finish painting the viewport not including ads.

I reinstalled Lastpass to test on nytimes.com. It takes 58ms to evaluate onloadwff.js (the Lastpass entry point) before any content is rendered.

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Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:21PM (#23545556)

I have LastPass, but I keep it in “only activate extension when I click on the toolbar button”.

The only annoying thing is that LastPass requires the whole page to reload first - I don’t know why Chrome can’t load an extension into an already-loaded page.

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Re:How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser per... by tim333 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @07:46AM (#23550270)

I switched to Bitwarden for similar reasons. Seems ok though I haven't checked the latency.

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