Firefox gets slower with every update - and it's certainly not Addblock plus that's at fault (although yes, addblock plus has a very inefficient implementation.)
If you use Chromium I recommend HTTPSwitchboard.
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
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
If this is motivated by your paranoia, why are you switching to a closed-source browser?
If you are motivated by the love of free software, why aren't you thinking of the possibility that gcc can have a backdoor written by bribed immoral programmers ? Or has Richard Stallman convinced you that by mere repetition of the word free, free software is also moral software ? I have no doubts what so ever that Opera is run by ethical people and it an ethical company. In any case a security / privacy audit is a m…
A security audit done by whom? Surely not people paid by the vendor of the product bring audited... Right?
Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#223Maybe I should write one. I wrote AdLimiter, (adlimiter.com) which eliminates certain ads from Google search result pages. It's really a demo for our site rating service, SiteTruth,but it has the internal machinery to find and remove ads. The basic idea is that it finds links to sites in the DOM, and works outward in the DOM to find the ad boundary. Then, if analysis of the link indicates the ad should be deleted, th…
Loading all content and placing overlays are precisely the reasons Addblock plus hogs so much RAM, as opposed to simply not loading the content.
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#224Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nah, that fate should be reserved for Mozilla, apparently.
That would have made sense if I had said "kill them", but no...I said that I hope they go away. Kind of a big difference.
"No, I much prefer that Mozilla just go away and die."
If you're going to try to split hairs over "kill them" versus "go away and die", you're going to have trouble convincing people.
Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#226Isn'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?
this is mainly due to having many images on your website (memory can store uncompressed images to save CPU cycles when rendering) Also, last I checked, most phones have 1 to 2 gigs of RAM, and they're not keeping many tabs in memory. If the RAM is there, using it is not really an issue (until you start getting into the whole virtual memory stuff I guess)
> this is mainly due to having many images on your website (memory can store uncompressed images to save CPU cycles when rendering)
If your webpage has that many images, you need to redesign your webpage. An uncompressed image at my screen resolution is 21MB - your webpage needs ten times that in memory? For maybe 500 words of prose and some meme/cat picture?
Modern web design is just so bad that they can't help themselves from this madness. A modern webpage needs 10+ iframes? Absolutely bullshit.
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#227> On a modern website, there can be dozens of iframes.
Let me fix that for you:
> On a shit website, there can be dozens of iframes.
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#228Behold the power of the Time Machine - the text straight from the 90th-00th. Everyone was like "Oh, this new Windoze uses 500 megs when idle! Then 1000 megs! Then 2000 megs! etc. etc.". Come on people, we are buying our hardware precisely for this - to be used.
Now this ET site with 28 spyware modules from random advertisers is telling me - "Don't use your CPU it will make it slower, also don't use too much RAM. Instead make your brain slower and use more brain memory for useless stuff. Because you know - think about children, and because we are entitled for our business model by birth right.".
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not disputing that Ghostrank tracks you, but your framing and presentation of the facts is FUD designed to fit your wished narrative.
Most people who use Ghostery aren't aware of the double standard.
It isn't a double standard. What's is hypocritical about giving users a choice (an informed one at that)?
Re: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
#230Behold the power of the Time Machine - the text straight from the 90th-00th. Everyone was like "Oh, this new Windoze uses 500 megs when idle! Then 1000 megs! Then 2000 megs! etc. etc.". Come on people, we are buying our hardware precisely for this - to be used. Now this ET site with 28 spyware modules from random advertisers is telling me - "Don't use your CPU it will make it slower, also don't use too much RAM. Inst…
RAM is a bit of a slippery slope. Yes, if you've got it you should use it. It is there to be used. But we don't have enough of it yet to just shovel it out the window as fast as we can. Additionally it impacts performance (RAM access is not free) and limits compatibility with older devices.