Mozilla Aims Reacts to the up Add-Ons Which Slow the Perfomance of Its Browser

Mozilla has publicly warned all its current actives users regarding the amount of vulnerability recent add-ons of the browsers bring to the slow startup. Alongside it has also warned its developers for fastening their extension software’s. Firefox said in a statement that whiles these add-ons adds versatility and new features to Mozilla's browser; they also slow the performance speed of the browser too. Mozilla has now began taking full action towards this rising speed-killing extensions.

Blog post of 1^st April by the Mozilla product manager, Justin Scott, also declares several steps the company is going take to for eradicating this problem and provide tentative solution to the delay caused by these add-ons. He wrote that "Firefox performance is extremely important to our users, especially how quickly it starts up and loads websites. Customization is also extremely important, and while most add-ons cause only a tiny performance impact, others can significantly slow down Firefox.”

Mozilla also added that using more than few add-ones worsens the problem at hand; it stated that every add-on puts in almost 10 percent contribution to Firefox's startup time. Hence according to the estimation, 10 add-ons will almost completely double the amount of time taken for the browser to launch. This is a very high price to pay in the time where speed is considered the king and selling point of any product. Mozilla's new Firefox 4 browser has a promised much faster graphics rendering, page loads, and startup times.

In remedy to this problem, now Mozilla has scheduled an automated performance tests which will be performed on top 100 add-ons along with the publishing the result publically. Hence the worst of the add-ones will be immediately identified, ultimately leading for the users to decide whether or not to use that particular add-on.

Moreover Mozilla has itself appealed all the developers to avoid these add-ons which slow the speed of the browser and hoped for them to improve the speed of their current software’s as well. It has been announced that the add-on gallery will show warning for the add-on’s which slow Firefox's performance for more than by 25 percent. Even the next future version of Firefox will be displaying these warnings in the browser’s own Add-Ons Manager too.

Scott finished his blog post with a hope that "We expect this to have a huge impact on Firefox performance, as well as giving users back the control they should have over their add-ons."