Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by Melatonic on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:41PM (#33156165)

I would recommend it. Firefox + uBlock Origin + NextDNS is an awesome experience. I keep NoScript mostly off but occasionally enable.

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by BolexNOLA on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:53PM (#33156272)

I have uBlock origin on brave so that’s moot, but I don’t use nextDNS. Is there a reason to use it when I’ve already got brave/uBlock killing most ads and trackers? (I also use proton VPN, not that it’s quite as relevant but figured I’d throw it out there).

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by donatzsky on Monday October 10, 2022 @05:50PM (#33156799)

We'll see what Brave can do to work around it, but chances are that content blockers are going to be handicapped when Manifest v3 is fully implemented.

Firefox will have no such problem, as Mozilla has specifically committed to keeping the necessary features.

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by BolexNOLA on Monday October 10, 2022 @06:34PM (#33157180)

Appreciate the insight!

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by spartanatreyu on Monday October 10, 2022 @07:43PM (#33157698)

Just to add to this, even before the upcoming Manifest V3 switchover, Firefox's uBlock Origin implementation is already better than Chrome's.

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by synicalx on Monday October 10, 2022 @06:21PM (#33157081)

Personally I still use NextDNS to help me kill ads on mobile, and also keep a tighter leash on my various IoT devices. You can block more than just ads with it and it also gives you interesting data, hard to beat for less than the price of a cup of coffee each month.

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by BolexNOLA on Monday October 10, 2022 @06:31PM (#33157154)

So I’m an usual user here - I’m tech savvy compared to most people (film/television background and just a general nerd) but I am a Luddite compared to y’all around here. I imagine it’s not hard to set up, but what does it give me that ad guard + proton + brave (mobile) and proton + brave w/ uBlock origin (Mac) don’t?

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by synicalx on Monday October 10, 2022 @06:48PM (#33157319)

Yeah its super easy to set up, but the biggest reason you would want to use it in addition to other adblocking stuff is that it works outside of browsers - you can block telemetry from your smart lights, you can stop a random app on your phone from showing you ads etc etc.

It does in theory also help block some malicious sites so you do get a bit of added security in that way. That can also be helpful if you have kids - block sites you don't want them on etc.

Personally I've also found their servers to be reasonably performant, no issues with query response times or anything like that.

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by BolexNOLA on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:31PM (#33186449)

Appreciate it! I’m going to get it all set up tomorrow.

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by cassianoleal on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:32AM (#33161205)

Why would you need NoScript if you're already using uBO?

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by Melatonic on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:25PM (#33167045)

Security mainly - a site I do not trust

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Re:Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS by cassianoleal on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:07AM (#33189193)

My point is you can block JS on uBO.

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