On: Firefox Add-ons with the Slowest Start-up

[user24]

This page is responsible for a lot of FUD.

So many people take it to mean, in effect, "Firebug makes Firefox slower". When in fact it means "Firebug makes Firefox slower to start up".

This page says nothing about the performance impact once firefox has loaded. I think that would be a more useful metric, and hope to see it in the future.

[maigret → user24]

I have nothing to prove it, but I heard many times at least from former version that Firebug was quite memory hungry, thus slowing Firefox after many hours of use. I may be wrong.

[ars → maigret]

It's true, it got a lot better with firefox 3.5.

Not sure if it was firefox or firebug that improved things (or both).

[user24 → maigret]

that may be the case, but it's nothing to do with what this page is measuring.