Addons performance

[avada]

Hello!

There are now tool such as the slow addons notification and about:performance to help with identifying slow addons. I was wondering if someone's been testing this feature for a while.
I find how they work rather confusing.
There are these settings for addon-watch:
browser.addon-watch.percentage-limit;5
browser.addon-watch.interval;15000
What what percentage/interval is that. And what is it doing anyway.
Also is there a performance impact for addon-watch? Can I disable it?

About:performance counts alerts, so if I disable alerts it won't show anything, right? Can I disable just the showing of the annoying alerts?

Can I disable both to save performance? (to at least test whether it's significant)

[PadaV4]

I found the warnings very annoying and i think setting browser.addon-watch.percentage-limit to -1 stopped the warnings from appearing.

[WaltS48]

I find the notification very easy to dismiss. Just click, "Ignore Permanently".

I suppose they could be annoying if you have a ton of extensions that provide the notification, but the user only has to deal with them once.

[therube]

Is this an extension, or otherwise?
In any case, a link?

Oh, you mean it is an about:, about:performance.

[avada]

@PadaV4
I don't want to disable performance monitoring.

@WLS
Not sure how would that effect performance monitoring. Also it's still annoying, easy to accidentally disable something, takes a long time.

@therube
Yes.

[avada]

Okay so for hiding the notification I can use this CSS:

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notification[value^="addon-slow:"]
{
    display: none !important;
}

Everything else is still unknown for me.

[WaltS48]

@avada

Only easy to disable something if the user doesn't pay attention. Easy to Enable by going to Add-ons Manager if the user makes a mistake.

I only had one notification, those with more extensions that may slow down Firefox mileage may vary.

Only needs to be done on one pass, unless the user adds a new extension that may slow down Firefox.

[Edit] The user can always just ignore the notification once the first one pops up, and they won't see anymore. I think