The developers of the Firefox browser want to inform about the power requirements of the installable extensions in the future more. According to the responsible product manager Justin Scott numerous this addons would worsen the start and response time of the browser.

On average, each installed extension extends the load time of the program by 10 percent according to Scott, numerous studies have shown this. Depending on the system, this could mean an additional waiting period of a half-second. With several approaches, it will therefore act against too power-hungry extensions, for the time being, but only informative measures are planned.

These include checks all new Add-ons in the future, so far only the 100 most of which are affected. In addition to the pure start time of the browser, then also the loading speed of certain Web pages to be tested. Within the next two weeks you wants to warn also in the addon from programs that slow down Firefox running 25 or more percent. To display this warning in the Addon Manager in one of the next versions.

But also the developers you will increasingly provide information and support. The creators of strongly slowing extensions are asked recently to look at the resource requirements and to work. Should in the coming months when the upload a new collection or a new version of a performance test be performed. This is to show developers how what measure impacts.

The so-called toolbars is according to Scott one of the biggest problems in terms of performance. Mostly, these extensions without the consent of the user would be installed. Therefore one wants enable only then installing toolbars in a future version of Firefox, if the user in the browser similar to gives his consent as in addons.

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