Third party scripts slow page loads, fix suggestions?

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Third party scripts slow page loads, fix suggestions?

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Every day when I surf I sit for at least two to five seconds on many websites while third party websites load scripts...or simply don't respond. Granted I know American broadband sucks in comparison to Asia and Europe for the most part but does any one have any suggestions for a universal tool that prevents third party junk from loading on the requested website?
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How could it differentiate between spammy websites and ones that genuinely need to load data from other sites, such as images or scripts though?
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Well scripts are different from images. :)
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Yeah, but a lot of sites link to google's jquery scripts, so that the browser caches it for all sites, increasing loading times.

With your proposed program, those websites wouldn't function.
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jackpf wrote:Yeah, but a lot of sites link to google's jquery scripts, so that the browser caches it for all sites, increasing loading times.
Most probably you meant 'decreasing'.
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Looking in Firefox's about:config I looked up 'timeout' and there are nine different settings...

accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout
accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout
browser.download.saveLinkAsFilenameTimeout
browser.urlbar.search.timeout
extensions.personas.previewTimeout
mousewheel.transaction.timeout
network.ftp.idleConnectionTimeout
network.http.keep-alive.timeout
network.proxy.failover_timeout

Most of them look unrelated (e.g. GUI stuff)...I'll do some research on the others.
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Weirdan wrote:
jackpf wrote:Yeah, but a lot of sites link to google's jquery scripts, so that the browser caches it for all sites, increasing loading times.
Most probably you meant 'decreasing'.
How embarrassing :P
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