When Plugins Go Bad

This post was written 3 years 11 months 25 days days old, so is a bit old now. Feel free to read and comment on this post, just remember some things change with time and any facts in this post may not be accurate anymore.

Aren’t Firefox plugins great?

Well, for a while I’ve been suffering from poor web page loading times – any JavaScript, for instance, in the code would cause the page loading to hang, during which I can’t scroll or anything (particularly annoying as most pages seems to use Google Analytics these days). Anyway, after getting nothing from a post on the Mozilla forums, I came to the conclusion that an add-on must be at fault – both my machines were suffering the same problem but nobody else was. The only thing in common was my plug-ins.

So I disabled them all and… great speed. Then I activated them one at a time, restarting Firefox as I did. I was wondering if it was simply a combination of plugins, but it wasn’t that complex. The fault lies with MozCC, which displays any Creative Commons licence which is associated with a site. It’s handy, but not essential so it’s now removed.