coComment slowing down FireFox
As a blogger you probably comment on blogs all over the internet. If you’re like me it’s that interaction that drew you to blogging in the first place. But it’s difficult to track all of those conversations.
A few days ago I downloaded and installed a plugin for Firefox called coComment which promises, and seem to deliver on that promise, to keep track of your blog comments. When you post a comment on a blog you now have a small line below the comment field that lets you track that thread, and when you visit the coComment page you’ll be able to get a list of all the blog comments you’ve made and are tracking.
But there is a major downside. coComment slows down Firefox to a point where it’s almost unbearable. For a few days I just lived with it because the idea of being able to track blog posts was such a good thing that I thought I was willing to deal with a little slowness. It got to a point where it was too much and I thought of disabling the plugin, especially considering the 99% of the web pages I visit are not blog posts but still slow.
But I found a trick that seems to bring at least some of the speed back. Keep the plugin disabled and re-enable it only on pages that you’re commenting on. The coComment plugin adds a small icon to the Firefox toolbar that you can right-click on and quickly enable and disable it.
coComment enabled
coComment menu
Pick the last menu choice and coComment will be disabled until you turn it back on.
coComment disabled
Keeping coComment disabled by default and only enabling it on blog posts I’m commenting on seems to work fairly well. Time will tell, but Firefox seems to have its speed back. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep this plugin because it seems like a very good thing, and without it killing the speed of Firefox it looks like I’ll be able to.
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