Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs

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Post by lelf » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:01 PM UTC

Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
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Post by shpx » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:31 PM UTC

People are using µBlock now for precisely this reason.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalh... https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

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Post by foxhill » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:32 PM UTC

being a.. "tech" person, i always get grief from people when i tell them i don't use adblock. "you should know better" or words to that effect.

this would explain why i've never considered chrome to be a memory hog.. (although, all my machines have a lot of memory, too)

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Post by lukastsai » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:33 PM UTC

a mobile readable version: https://getscroll.com/r/mdqbs

I'm using https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock to replace Adblock plus since last week.

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Post by elorant » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:34 PM UTC

I’d rather pay a few dozen bucks to buy more RAM than running the risk of been infected by malware served from compromised ad servers. Not to mention the significant decrease in aesthetics/usability when pages include a dozen different ad areas.

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Post by ddorian43 » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:35 PM UTC

Isn't using 200MB for a webpage(techcrunch) actually bad in the first place ?

Do all designers work on their iExpensiveMachine and don't care about other peoples lower-end machines/phones/tables/whatever?

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Post by jmgtan » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:36 PM UTC

I've been using GlimmerBlock for quite sometime without running into issues

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Post by girishso » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:37 PM UTC

I have switched to HTTP Switchboard, works pretty well. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/http-switchboard/m...

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Post by ddorian43 » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:37 PM UTC

shpx wrote: post #2

People are using µBlock now for precisely this reason. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5block/cjpalh... https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

it probably needs a better way to whitelist sites/pages

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Post by bourbon » Sat, Dec 27, 2014, 1:38 PM UTC

I use Ghost and Adblock+ with Chromium, and I've never had an issue with memory.