[mywittyname]

NoScript really accelerates performance on my FF install. Places like Buzzfeed are unusable on my laptop without it.

Excessive JS usage is probably the culprit behind the move to Chrome. A number of popular sites are so packed with JS that using Chrome is the only way for normal users to achieve reasonable performance.

[organicmultiloc]

Nowadays every webpage downloads 2 megabytes of framework JS and css preprocessors and analytics trackers and then pegs the CPU for a few milliseconds to display a paragraph of text.

If the page actually does anything on top of that the problem grows quickly.