I use firebug since it's my business, but I had no idea it slows the browser down so much.

I hate all these stupid add-ons. Shit the world doesn't need!

None of the add-ons I have are listed. But then again the only ones I have are speed dial .... nope. The others are plugins.

Of all those I only use Xmarks and it's normally disabled unless I want to sync Chrome to match FF.

The articles is about start-up time too and I rarely shut my browser down. I would be more interested in seeing what the drag is under normal operation.

I had no idea Firebug had such an impact, though. Never really noticed.

Heh, and the only reason I ever use Firefox is to use Firebug. Doesn't really bother me too much since it's worth the wait.

@Lantec

You can do that by opening task manager while the browser is open and looking under processes in both cpu and memory columns. That should give you a rough estimate of the load it has. But then again you probably know that already.

*watch yrag hit me upside the head lol*

Uvah... Lantec is very knowledgable regarding computers. Believe me.

I knew that. He he.

  I have the minimize add-on ... so it never shuts down.

Don't mind taking a load hit with the extensions, flexibility is Firefox's strength. 

Sorry to burst your bubble but you dont speak for the world. I use several add-ons on my FF browser. I find every one of them useful. I figured xmarks would cause some issues as it tries to sync when you open and close the browser, but unless your life depends on how fast your browser opens I don't see it as a big deal that it takes a few seconds more to open. I think some people tend to exaggerate too much this whole "I need it open 30 seconds ago" mentality.

I use both xmarks and aniweather but to be honest aniweather has been more of a pain lately (since the FF4 update) than useful and was thinking about eliminating it. Now I have an even bigger reason to do so.

So AdBlock is stupid? You like seeing ads everywhere you visit on the net?

Well, i have two of them... but i don't complain about speed... any add-ons need resource but it is sometime using less resource that a full software...

By example, i use fireFTP who is only a few hundred kb... if i use the software from my provider, it is several mb and use a lot more resource that the firefox add-on...

What need to be compared is the resource used by the plug-in to the resource used by a individual software/application who make a similar function...

I do not speak for the world, it was just my opinion.

Adblock is only useful addon but all the others are playings...

Actually, folks.... the Thread was only to inform about Speed vs. Add-on caused slow downs.... and that so many complain about "This is new? This is supposed to be fast? This doesn't skin!".... and what we do (individually) to cause those problems - and to weigh whether we really need all the add ons we use.