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Slow Performing Add-ons Cumulative Effect?

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TonyE replied
luvntravln
luvntravln

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/performance/#addon-11

This says that

Video Download Helper slows FF 35% Xmarks Sync 30% Adblock 20%

Is this cumulative, i.e., I use these three; have I slowed it down 90%?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/performance/#addon-11 This says that Video Download Helper slows FF 35% Xmarks Sync 30% Adblock 20% Is this cumulative, i.e., I use these three; have I slowed it down 90%?

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TonyE
TonyE

The data provided by Mozilla can be very misleading, for a discussion on this see http://adblockplus.org/blog/on-fluctuations-in-performance-testing-results

In particular comment 10 by Nils Maier.