I really prefer Ghostery. Gives a much better analysis of what's being blocked, with fine grain controls, and much nicer UI.
I haven't measured the memory consumption, but I havent had any noticeable issues so far.
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Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#12Not really a bug, more of an enhancement.
Cem Kaner said that all the pedantry about whether or not something is a bug is irrelevant. He says a bug is anything a user perceives as wrong. I used to worry about calling things not-really-bugs, but when I adopted his viewpoint it gave me a better perspective on what's important in software.
I try to go the other way and push people towards avoiding calling anything a "bug" as much as possible. It helps a lot in change control to know what's a "new feature", what's an "improvement", what "needs clarification" - but it's administrative hell trying to work out priorities from hundreds of indeterminate "bugs".
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#13Great for everyone still using Adblock Plus. The rest of us switched to uBlock Origin and never looked back.
Do you have any tips for performance. I use chrome and ublock, umatrix and disconnect. Disconnect is a few second penalty but worth it for a free proxy. However, I am not sure whether ublock runs before uMatrix, or how much that matters. I was hoping to find a few great regex heuristics to speed things up and procide better blocking. I personally don't use 3rd party block by default because honestly why bother, sites display so shitty you might as well just noscript and whitelist.
tldr; parent or anyone interested do you have suggestions surrounding: > good filter configurations in ublock > whitelist & regex config > use uMatrix? > how to optimize for performance?
Ideally in chrome.
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#14Does anyone know if it's worth switching back from uBlock for?
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#15ABP memory usage in Chrome made me switch to router-level ad blocking. Added bonus: it works on mobile too. I have weird page renderings sometimes, and whitelisting a legit site is a pain, but it's overall a huge value to off-load the blocking to the router.
Do you have any documentation on this? It's something I've been interested in setting up.
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#16Hopefully they could also het arpund to fix the usability bug where the back button on the right click menu disappear if anything is selected...
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#17Hopefully they could also get around to fix the usability bug where the back button on the right click menu disappear if anything is selected...
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#18Great for everyone still using Adblock Plus. The rest of us switched to uBlock Origin and never looked back.
What people doesn't know is that uBlock makes use of EasyList as one of its default block lists. EasyList is maintained by ABP's parent company. That list itself has built-in whitelist that could not be turn off without revamping the list itself. That list contains upward of 60k of rules and no one has time to evaluate that for free.
uBlock can make all kind of independence claims it wants, but at the end of the day, uBlock is still relying on ABP for its blocking rules--which is no guarantee at all.
edit: lol why are people downvoting me for pointing out that uBlock is relying on ABP? uBlock never acctually claimed to not having acceptable ads. By using ABP's EasyList, they could already be running an "acceptable ads" whitelist.
edit 2: Here's the link to easylist for anyone that care to check out the included whitelist: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt
Warning, the list is over 1mb.
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#19I really prefer Ghostery. Gives a much better analysis of what's being blocked, with fine grain controls, and much nicer UI. I haven't measured the memory consumption, but I havent had any noticeable issues so far.
I moved to Ghostery a few years ago and all I notice is that whenever I disable it most sites are far slower.
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#20Hopefully they could also get around to fix the usability bug where the back button on the right click menu disappear if anything is selected...
Wow, that's quite weird. Not just the back button but refresh, bookmark (star icon), Save Page As ...
As I type this comment, I'm noticing that you get almost this same reduced context menu when you right click on the edit box (with additional items like Paste and Check Spelling).
Maybe the intent is that you don't unintentionally reload the page or back out when you're selecting.
But then Backspace will navigate back regardless of whether you have a selection, and the main navigation bar's back button also works.