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Adblock Plus Causes Firefox 52.5.3 ESR running very slow!!!

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I run Firefox 52.5.3 ESR. I noticed it has become very slow lately... Tried many things suggested here but nothing really worked... I noticed that when Adblock Plus is disabled things are running almost as fast as they used to do... Does any other has noticed this? I want to keep Adblock enabled because it makes browsing less distructing with all these ads.. Thank you all, Mouratos

I run Firefox 52.5.3 ESR. I noticed it has become very slow lately... Tried many things suggested here but nothing really worked... I noticed that when Adblock Plus is disabled things are running almost as fast as they used to do... Does any other has noticed this? I want to keep Adblock enabled because it makes browsing less distructing with all these ads.. Thank you all, Mouratos
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Hi, yes ABP has caused some slowness issues. Leave it disabled and try https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin

You can also try reducing the number of Multiprocesses: Go to the 3-bar menu > Options (General) - Performance, then deselect 'Use recommended performance settings' and change 'Content process limit' to 1 or 2. See - Firefox's performance settings, and Startup, home page, tabs, and download settings.

Whilst in the 3-bar menu, you can also go to Options (Privacy & Security) - Permissions, and tick/check 'Prevent accessibility services from accessing your browser' then restart Firefox. More - What is the Accessibility Service Indicator?

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