Speeding up Firefox by ad blocking and video suppression

[OwlHoot]

Firefox on a couple of my PCs is often hellishly slow, and sometimes freezes for 30 seconds at a time.

I'm pretty sure I don't have memory problems, a slow connection, or any genuine malware (although some of Adobe's products are not far short of that!)

I think the delays are mostly if not entirely caused by accessing multiple ad sites and downloading videos that festoon some pages

So I would like apps or techniques to:

* block ads

* prevent the downloading and/or playing of videos unless I ask

Any ideas? I'm sure this problem must afflict many people.

(Apologies if the same question was asked here only last week or something - I haven't checked.)

[eek]

https://adblockplus.org/

[TykeMerc]

https://adblockplus.org/

What he said, there's a few of these types of products about, they seem to work pretty well.

[Platypus]

I tend to use Chrome these days which I find faster than FF

[TykeMerc]

I tend to use Chrome these days which I find faster than FF

Same here and I use adblocking plugins on that too.

[woohoo]

I use uBlock Origin for Chrome supposed to be cpu and memory efficient.