{"id":7326,"date":"2011-01-21T12:51:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7326"},"modified":"2011-01-21T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T16:56:29","slug":"if-you-are-finding-firefox-to-be-much-slower-lately-uninstall-the-skype-toolbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/21\/if-you-are-finding-firefox-to-be-much-slower-lately-uninstall-the-skype-toolbar\/","title":{"rendered":"If you are finding Firefox to be much slower lately, uninstall the Skype toolbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Firefox as my main browser for a few years, and it generally works well for me. In the last month or so, however, I&#8217;ve noticed it being much slower. Some of that problem may have been caused by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2011\/01\/21\/mozilla_adds_skype_toolbar_to_blocklist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skype toolbar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mozilla has blocked a Skype toolbar add-on for its Firefox browser, after blaming the extension for causing 40,000 crashes last week.<\/p>\n<p>The open source outfit said it vastly slowed down webpage-loading times.<\/p>\n<p>The crash-prone add-on downed Firefox 3.6.13 &mdash; which is the current stable version of the browser &mdash; far too much, grumbled Mozilla.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Additionally, depending on the version of the Skype Toolbar you\u2019re using, the methods it uses to detect and re-render phone numbers can make DOM [document object model] manipulation up to 300 times slower, which drastically affects the page rendering times of a large percentage of web content served today (plain English: to the user, it appears that Firefox is slow loading web pages),&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I started using Firefox as my default browser around the time they introduced tabbed pages (which every browser has offered for years now). I also use Opera, Chrome, and (unwillingly) IE for specific purposes. If the Firefox performance issues aren&#8217;t resolved when they release the new version 4.0 next month, I&#8217;ll consider switching to Chrome as my primary browser instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Firefox as my main browser for a few years, and it generally works well for me. In the last month or so, however, I&#8217;ve noticed it being much slower. Some of that problem may have been caused by the Skype toolbar: Mozilla has blocked a Skype toolbar add-on for its Firefox browser, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[109,156,58,93,92],"class_list":["post-7326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-computers","tag-fail","tag-internet","tag-opensource","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Ua","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7328,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7326\/revisions\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}