Scalability: 'Blacklist' Add-ons Slow Firefox Down

Firefox's scalability through its massive add-on repository has always been mentioned as one of its superior strengths. But at the same time this is also the cause of low performance, long boot time due to running many add-ons at the same time.

Many add-ons affect FireFox's processing capabilities - (Artwork: Int ernet )

While there has been a lot of improvement with the launch of Firefox 4, Mozilla is still determined to find ways to make add-on makers adjust their products.

According to Justin Scott, monitoring Mozilla's add-on array product, a plug-in application in Firefox, increases the average startup time to 10%. This time (in seconds) depends on the configuration of the user's computer hardware, but generally, Mozilla estimates that installing at least 10 add-ons is enough to double the initialization time. Firefox.

To end the situation, Mozilla will begin conducting speed tests, apply automatically to 100 add-ons that lead the rankings and publish weekly results here. The worst-performing programs now include FoxLingo's dictionary and translation program and the Firebug site error correction tool, two names that increase the ' Fire Fox ' boot time to 74%.

List of add-ons that are 'just named'. (Artwork: Techspot)

Another add-on: Xmarks slows down the browser by 30%. More funny, the FastestFox add-on, advertised as "faster browsing ," slowed Firefox by 33% when running in the browser.

In the next two weeks, Mozilla will put a warning panel next to the add-ons that slow down the browser by more than 25%.

Mozilla is interacting with the authors of the worst add-ons, to encourage them to improve product performance, and not forget to emphasize: ' Developers need to make sure their programs are only available. allow up to 5% of Firefox's startup speed .