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cost of "do not sell" signal

Firefox App responsiveness
jbr replied 6 hours ago
erin.masclet
erin.masclet

Hello, Might the "do not sell" signal (that firefox offer to send automatically to website) slow the browsing please ? I can't figure out if it is a whole request to send in addition or just few bit more in the initial one, or something else I don't have in mind. I'm currently struggling with lots of tabs slowing my computer, even paralyzing the mouse . I try to optimize as I need to keep my tabs, but I don't what is the best way to manage that. Are the tabs less expansive than using windows, for the memory ? Could the groups of tabs lighten the storage ? Is it better (and more usable! ) to bookmark or add to "the task bar" when we just need to keep the adress to use it later ? Actually, is there a doc already answering to that please ?

I hope you might understand my bad english and that sometimes, we can't find other way than keeping too many tabs.

Thank you, Erin

Hello, Might the "do not sell" signal (that firefox offer to send automatically to website) slow the browsing please ? I can't figure out if it is a whole request to send in addition or just few bit more in the initial one, or something else I don't have in mind. I'm currently struggling with lots of tabs slowing my computer, even paralyzing the mouse . I try to optimize as I need to keep my tabs, but I don't what is the best way to manage that. Are the tabs less expansive than using windows, for the memory ? Could the groups of tabs lighten the storage ? Is it better (and more usable! ) to bookmark or add to "the task bar" when we just need to keep the adress to use it later ? Actually, is there a doc already answering to that please ? I hope you might understand my bad english and that sometimes, we can't find other way than keeping too many tabs. Thank you, Erin

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jbr
jbr
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Hi Erin, no — the Global Privacy Control is just a trivial header, similar to your other content preferences (language, images etc.), it has no impact on performance in either direction.

I would advise to perhaps bookmark those tabs: Bookmarks in Firefox — potentially in bulk, bookmarking whole windows of tabs as bookmark folders to save them for later, you can name them by a date, or by a topic of what's inside — it's generally better to unload the tabs you don't need running.

You can also unload tabs while keeping them around Unload tabs to reduce system memory usage in Firefox and the list of processes Task Manager - see whether tabs or extensions are slowing down Firefox will help you monitor resource consumption.

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