AdBlock slows down Firefox start on Mac OS 10.9
Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:00 pm
The combination AdBlock Plus + Firefox + Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks does not work well.
Having AdBlock Plus enabled adds 10 seconds to Firefox startup time (the time from starting the application Firefox until the main window appears.)
Disabling AdBlock Plus makes Firefox start very fast.
This is on:
- AdBlock plus downloaded (the official way) and installed today.
- FireFox version 25.0
- Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- MacBook Air mid 2011
This huge delay due to AdBlock Plus is only present on Mac OS X 10.9.
On earlier versions of Mac OS X (i.e. 10.8 ) I did not notice any delay from AdBlock Plus.
(Or maybe there was a new version of AdBlock Plus that introduced the delay at the same time that I upgraded Mac OS X to 10.9.)
Having AdBlock Plus enabled adds 10 seconds to Firefox startup time (the time from starting the application Firefox until the main window appears.)
Disabling AdBlock Plus makes Firefox start very fast.
This is on:
- AdBlock plus downloaded (the official way) and installed today.
- FireFox version 25.0
- Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- MacBook Air mid 2011
This huge delay due to AdBlock Plus is only present on Mac OS X 10.9.
On earlier versions of Mac OS X (i.e. 10.8 ) I did not notice any delay from AdBlock Plus.
(Or maybe there was a new version of AdBlock Plus that introduced the delay at the same time that I upgraded Mac OS X to 10.9.)