µBlock for Firefox

I haven't been able to do performance tests, which is supposed to be the best advantage of this extension. But at least, it seems to block ads properly on Chrome.

Has anybody made some tests outside of the developers of the extension?

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#5

Post by whizzkid » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 9:55 AM UTC

I have been using µBlock for 3 weeks now.(previously adblock plus). There is one irritating thing it has that almost makes me go back to adblock again.

It is often blocking the false positives.

So if developer has named one of their assets file with social media names like "twitter/facebook/etc", it blocks the file right away. Since it does not have custom configuration options for each site, you can either disable µBlock or go with the crashed site.

Not all the sites are written professionally by experts, and this becomes an issue when you are trying to purchase stuff from small online shops. (to support local sellers)

I am too busy for a pull request these days, but maybe this will be fixed soon by someone else. My point for µBlock is for now 5/10.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#6

Post by misterdai » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 9:56 AM UTC

The GitHub site also states that it's available for Chrome, Opera and Safari (not yet in the extension gallery).

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cjpalhdlnbpafiamej...

Opera: https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/ublock/

Safari: https://chrismatic.io/ublock

Haven't tried it out myself yet but it's nice to see effort put into lowering the memory & CPU usage of such blockers.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#7

Post by neuronic » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 9:57 AM UTC

From my experience of using this for a few weeks now on Chrome, I would recommend this over AdBlock Plus etc. I haven't done any specific performance tests and personally no numbers to back it up. However, I do have the subjective impression of improvement.

I'm using it in combination with µMatrix.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#8

Post by ramadarata » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 9:58 AM UTC

Ad blocking is theft. Period.

Re: µBlock for Firefox

#9

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 9:58 AM UTC

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Re: µBlock for Firefox

#10

Post by logn » Tue, Jan 20, 2015, 10:02 AM UTC

whizzkid wrote: post #5

I have been using µBlock for 3 weeks now.(previously adblock plus). There is one irritating thing it has that almost makes me go back to adblock again. It is often blocking the false positives. So if developer has named one of their assets file with social media names like "twitter/facebook/etc", it blocks the file right away. Since it does not have custom configuration options for each site, you can either disable µ…

You should file an issue on github at least. The developer is responsive and friendly.