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Too bad its's not for Firefox
Someone is working on it there https://github.com/Deathamns/uBlock . There is also experimental xpi https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/27 .
Fantastic!
Thank you :)
Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
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Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#32For Firefox, there's Bluhell Firewall https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/bluhell-firew...
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#33For Firefox, there's Bluhell Firewall https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/bluhell-firew...
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#34I prefer the hosts file way of redirecting ad/tracking domains to localhost. There are some nice hosts lists already compiled, which you can download to make your own. The resources problem simply went away when I started doing it this way.
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Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#36I often send URL to printfriendly, most of the time it's light, readable and ads-free. Works with Firefox keyword tags (added manually) and with Chrom* urlbar (added automatically after a few visits).
Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#37I once did some profiling on a heavy single page app and found that the overhead of AdBlock+'s extreme amount of CSS selectors was a major culprit.
Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#38People 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
Together with umatrix ( https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/ ) are the best chrome extensions Since I went back to firefox those are the only extensions I really miss, there is policeman ( https://github.com/futpib/policeman/ ) but it's not as good as them yet To whoever develop extensions, please don't focus only on chrome, firefox during the last months has become must better that it was before, if developers only c…
I use NoScript and RequestPolicy for full white listing functionality in Firefox.
Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#39what about forking chromium and integrating adblock directly in the browser? +removing all the google nonsense (like disabled cross domain security for some google domains)
Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#40I have switched to HTTP Switchboard, works pretty well. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/http-switchboard/m...
You should migrate to umatrix ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%C2%B5matrix/ogfcm... ), http switchboard is not maintained anymore
uMatrix is new and improved, and I use it sometimes, but it is still rough around the edges. Some websites don't work and there's no work-around.
Edit: To clarify, the above is in comparison to HTTPSB.