Comments on: firebug affects firefox performance? well…duh, i guess. http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/01/27/firebug-affects-firefox-performance-wellduh-i-guess/ development (tech and personal) thoughts of Alex Hillman Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:12:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6-beta1 By: Stefan Thomas http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/01/27/firebug-affects-firefox-performance-wellduh-i-guess/#comment-11337 Stefan Thomas Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:09:10 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/01/27/firebug-affects-firefox-performance-wellduh-i-guess/#comment-11337 <p>Yap, I can confirm this, too. With Firebug my Firefox slows down over time. Without Firebug this doesn't occur.</p> <p>Typical memory leak behavior really.</p> Yap, I can confirm this, too. With Firebug my Firefox slows down over time. Without Firebug this doesn’t occur.

Typical memory leak behavior really.

]]> By: Michiel van Vlaardingen http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/01/27/firebug-affects-firefox-performance-wellduh-i-guess/#comment-2897 Michiel van Vlaardingen Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:31:50 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/01/27/firebug-affects-firefox-performance-wellduh-i-guess/#comment-2897 <p>I had the exact same experience. The slow down only occurred after hours of browsing JavaScript intensive sites, but it was exactly as you describe. Completely disabling Firebug solved it, but only turning it off in the Firebug menu did not.</p> I had the exact same experience. The slow down only occurred after hours of browsing JavaScript intensive sites, but it was exactly as you describe. Completely disabling Firebug solved it, but only turning it off in the Firebug menu did not.

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