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It adds the (half-dozen) ajax scripts to topic pages.

Doesn’t affect other pages from what I can see.

In theory it’s very necessary, can’t delete topics without it since there is no non-ajax fallback from what I can see. Also things like adding/removing favorites within a topic.

You can reduce mysql queries by pre-loading all options in one fetch at startup. Try this un-documented option in config.php

$bb->load_options = true;

personally I can’t wait ’til they stop using prototype.js since it’s HUGE for the few functions they access

then there is add-load-event which is 200 or so bytes but not combined with any other script so it forces yet another external file load