Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
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Re: Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
#2Adblock+ has been fine for me. Has anyone had any problems?
Personally, Adblock+ has earned my trust over a long period of time, so it's hard to see myself switching to something else unless the reason was dire.
Re: Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
#3Adblock+ has been fine for me. Has anyone had any problems? Personally, Adblock+ has earned my trust over a long period of time, so it's hard to see myself switching to something else unless the reason was dire.
This is a response to an article[1] on memory use, and specifically a bug/limitation of ABP which causes it to use large amounts of memory (1GB+) on web pages which utilise many iframes.
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...
Re: Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
#4Is there any plan to port this to Firefox? It'd be nice to see HTTPSB as an alternative to ABP there too.
Re: Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
#5I rage quit Firefox years ago because it's impossible to discuss it's critical perf issues without people pointing shifting blame to plugins. It got so bad I ran clean installs that never had a plugin ever, still had perf issues, and people on the internet simply refused Firefox could be at fault.
I switched to Chrome and have never looked back. I also have never had a single issue with any AdBlock plugin in Chrome. Maybe they're doing something insanely stupid. I don't know. I use Chrome where it just works so I also don't care.
Re: Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
#6MY GOSH! I never realized how slow my page loadings were. Removed ABP (and a couple of extensions) after reading this and the memory consumption just went to 1/2 of what it used to be, the page loading times are just incredible... I always wondered why Chrome is soooo much slower compared to Firefox (ABP not installed on Firefox) but never investigated further.
Thank you so much!
Re: Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
#7I rage quit Firefox years ago because it's impossible to discuss it's critical perf issues without people pointing shifting blame to plugins. It got so bad I ran clean installs that never had a plugin ever, still had perf issues, and people on the internet simply refused Firefox could be at fault. I switched to Chrome and have never looked back. I also have never had a single issue with any AdBlock plugin in Chrome.…
I was in your situation. I switched from Firefox to Chrome and thought I would never go back. Funnily enough, I went back recently (a few months ago) and have really been enjoying the recent Firefox editions. Sure, they make some "interesting" design choices, but overall I believe it's really improved recently. You should really give it another shot.
Re: Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
#8I rage quit Firefox years ago because it's impossible to discuss it's critical perf issues without people pointing shifting blame to plugins. It got so bad I ran clean installs that never had a plugin ever, still had perf issues, and people on the internet simply refused Firefox could be at fault. I switched to Chrome and have never looked back. I also have never had a single issue with any AdBlock plugin in Chrome.…
It's the memory gluttony that really puts a cramp in Chrome's style. I can't always afford to run it.
Re: Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
#9I rage quit Firefox years ago because it's impossible to discuss it's critical perf issues without people pointing shifting blame to plugins. It got so bad I ran clean installs that never had a plugin ever, still had perf issues, and people on the internet simply refused Firefox could be at fault. I switched to Chrome and have never looked back. I also have never had a single issue with any AdBlock plugin in Chrome.…
I run Chrome as my general browser and Firefox for development. So I use both in anger every day. I must say that FF has caught up, plus it feels like Chrome is starting to fall behind -- I regularly get lockups in Chrome (particularly GMail) and FF has made great strides. To the point that I might flip and use FF for my everyday work too.
Re: Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
#10MY GOSH! I never realized how slow my page loadings were. Removed ABP (and a couple of extensions) after reading this and the memory consumption just went to 1/2 of what it used to be, the page loading times are just incredible... I always wondered why Chrome is soooo much slower compared to Firefox (ABP not installed on Firefox) but never investigated further. Thank you so much!
Whenever I opened a new tab & typed something in the address bar, it appeared after a 1-2 second delay. I used to think that was absurd on part of Chrome. However after removing ABP, the problem's gone.
That 20K number makes me cringe. For now, a little bit of ads are fine :)