> As a side effect disabling javascript also makes pages load faster
Ironically on our rather elderly laptops NoScript actually increases page loading times by a factor of two and that's with the out-of-the-box configuration. I haven't looked to see what pattern-matching algorithms it uses but they're very slow.
Because it is a browser extension which by itself is quite complicated application. I use builtin JS blocking options in Chromium and didn't notice any slowdown.
Ironically on our rather elderly laptops NoScript actually increases page loading times by a factor of two and that's with the out-of-the-box configuration. I haven't looked to see what pattern-matching algorithms it uses but they're very slow.
Core2 Duo Dell Latitudes.