Re: No-Script, was: Re: [OT] google earth 5.0

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

H.S. on 09/02/09 17:21, wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 02/09/2009 02:19 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson on 05/02/09 12:43, wrote:
> > > > On 02/05/2009 03:40 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > > On my old machine I couldn't run FF tolerably without No-script.
> > > > Please expound.
> > > In terms of speed - with No-script disabled, the javascript on many 
> > > websites causes FF to lock up completely for 10, 20 or even 30 seconds 
> > > (and without even displaying anything to read).
> > Really?  How old of a machine?
> I can give one example: in Icepae (Debian Testing) it takes around 30 seconds
> to get Slashdot page loaded partially when Iceape then tells me that the web
> page has a script running that is taking a bit too long. I then tell noscript
> to stop that script. End result, around 30 seconds to load this web page.
>
> This is on a 1.9 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 1.25 GB RAM.
>
> On a newer machine that web page loads within some seconds, around 5 or so if
> I am not wrong.

Just realised I had engaged my mouth (or better said my keyboard) before
engaging my brain - I use firebug with all its HTML, Javascript and HTTP
analytics and I have been running that all the time, effectively debugging all
the javascript that loads. Disabling it for normal surfing has dropped the load
times (and javascript freeze) by 66%. Doofus.

It's iceweasel running on a P4 2.4GHz CPU with 1048MB RAM with 2.5Mbps BB.

maps.google.co.uk takes 20 secs to load first up, unless I leave firebug
activated in which case it takes 1 min 10 secs :S

The other pages such as BBC.co.uk and nabble.com take 5 secs without firebug -
nothing to complain about too much I guess.