Mozilla Releases List Of 50 Add-Ons That Slow Down Firefox
Mozilla has released a list of 50 Firefox add-ons which slow down the Firefox browser and increase it's start-up time. Not only this, some heavy or buggy add-ons can even slow down Firefox to a level which makes it very difficult to use the brpwser even for regular web browsing.
For best performance of the browser you should disable add-ons which you do not use regularly. Here is the list of the 50 Firefox browser add-ons which are the cause of some of the biggest bottlenecks for the browser. The add-ons have been listed in descending order of the degree by which they slow down Firefox.
- FoxLingo
- Firebug
- AniWeather
- FlashGot
- FoxClocks
- FoxyTunes
- Video DownloadHelper
- FastestFox
- Xmarks Sync
- SimilarWeb
- CoolPreviews
- Adblock Plus
- RSS Ticker
- StumbleUpon
- iMacros for Firefox
- Yoono
- Personas Plus
- Flagfox
- All-in-One Sidebar
- NoScript
- DownThemAll!
- Feedly
- Greasemonkey
- SkipScreen
- Download YouTube Videos +
- Download Statusbar
- Web Developer
- ColorZilla
- Web of Trust
- ReloadEvery
- AutoPager
- Fire.fm
- Google Shortcuts
- Flash Video Downloader (Youtube Downloader)
- VideoSurf Videos at a Glance
- Integrated Gmail
- ReminderFox
- ScrapBook
- Ant Video Downloader and Player
- WebMail Notifier
- FireGestures
- Stylish
- Read It Later
- Facebook Toolbar
- Torbutton
- FoxyProxy Standard
- ImTranslator
- Download Manager Tweak
- BetterPrivacy
- Firefox Sync
Are you using any of the add-ons listed above? Then let us know about them in the comments section and also try to get rid of those addons from your browser.
For a more real-time update of the list, see this.