Facebook Slow

Has anyone else found that Facebook is very slow today?

In fact over the last couple of days I have found Facebook to be very slow. I’m not sure if they are doing some form of maintenance or not but accessing applications has been very slow.

Applications are stored on third party servers so that would not be the problem. They only access Facebook for certain functions.

I have installed a Firefox Browser extension that blocks all adds from Facebook. Installing adblock plus did improve my Facebook speed somewhat although I am not sure what is causing the recent slowness.

Here is a link to Adblock Plus for anyone interested. It is also worth downloading ‘Element Hiding Helper‘ this one is particularly good for stubborn adds that will not disappear using Adblock Plus.

I found that Adblock Plus removed most of the advertisements with no trouble, but on a couple of applications I still had one add that would not go. With Element Hiding element it was easy to click around the add with my mouse and hide that advertisement too.