I suppose not, since I don't think you submit dats with GhostRank on, but for a while the holding company wasn't really upfront about that and it makes me distrust them.
just installed Disconnect, will see if I like it....
Forgot to include my addon memory consumption: http://i.imgur.com/RcrJK6C.png
That's after about an average length session. Biggest culprit is always abp because I have a ton of filters added in and always a lot of tabs open (though nowhere near the prolific Super Fast's number of tabs!)
Starting with blank page FF takes ~240MB but rises rapdily to ~300-350MB when opening first tab and after a while FF takes about 400MB-600MB. I've 8GB RAM.
I had some slowness/sluggishness earlier but got it fixed by creating new profile (and reinstalling Firefox I think). My profile is so very old (because I backup it before I reinstall) and it had lots of useless, outdated and redundant files from old addons and FF versions etc. I also checked my ABP; removed all filters and then checked best filters at that moment and installed those. Also ABP uses a bit less RAM after the optimization.
I’ve also tried about:memory-addons but now I’m just using about:memory (one addon less ).
the eCleaner addon purges references to addons that don't exist anymore, but yeah a profile reset every so often isn't a bad idea, especially since firefox sync will bring back your addons / settings, bookmarks, etc, without any of the old problematic stuff
Haven't used Sync yet. If I recall I removed everything (also FF installation) and then installed latest FF and imported just bookmarks and saved passwords. Previously I always restored those, settings, addons and probably addons settings etc..
Gonna try that eCleaner out later, haven't heard of it before.
enabling it on firefox 30 causes quite a bit of display interference, ymmv