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Things that bog down your browser

I recently received the following comment and I thought it would be a good idea to go over some reasons why a web browser might get sluggish. 

WTF, did you test this page?  It is so freakin slow to scroll in FF3 – your layout sucks 100%, seriously. 

The most common reason is that you have may have too many tabs open.  Sometimes it could be a buggy extension you installed; While most extensions are well done, there are a few that are really not ready to be used.  One of your tabs that has a lot of JavaScript or Flash going on.  Sometimes if you have a Quicktime plugin loaded in another tab that can bring your browser to a crawl. 

There have been times that I’ve left Google Reader open all day at work in a tab and sometimes it will just end up making my browser so slow I have to relaunch it.  Although it hasn’t happened that often with Firefox 3. 

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Comments -49-0 of 2 to “Things that bog down your browser”

-49 ·Josh Straubsays:

I would attribute the slowness to your static fullscreen background image.  It’s not very well known, but a fact nonetheless, that using these static backgrounds causes dreadfully slow scrolling on many browsers.  I suspect your reader had a legitimate complaint. 

I doubt the number of tabs had anything to do with it, this is reproducible with only 1 tab open.