Post #1854116
2026-04-27 09:48 UTC
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@KekunPlazas
> I regularly have system freezes when using Firefox and some other apps, everything freezes but the mouse pointer
I might be way off the mark, but I used to have this problem regularly. It stopped immediately when I installed NoScript, preventing random companies from running their shitty JavaScript in my browser without my case-by-case consent.
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-04-27 09:50
(2/2) Most people writing commercial JS are web designers, not software engineers, and don't have the first clue about efficient memory use or garbage collection. Their code will reserve ridiculous and often exponentially increasing amounts of memory as it runs, and seldom bothers to release it for other uses. Most JS served by websites is for tracking purposes, so blocking it from running is a feature, not a bug.