Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
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Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#2This amused me - about twenty minutes ago I'd noticed Firefox using way less memory that it usually does, but thought nothing more of it.
Jung would have something to say about synchronicity, I'm sure.
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#3Not really a bug, more of an enhancement.
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#4ABP memory usage in Chrome made me switch to router-level ad blocking. Added bonus: it works on mobile too. I have weird page renderings sometimes, and whitelisting a legit site is a pain, but it's overall a huge value to off-load the blocking to the router.
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#5Great for everyone still using Adblock Plus. The rest of us switched to uBlock Origin and never looked back.
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#6Not really a bug, more of an enhancement.
Cem Kaner said that all the pedantry about whether or not something is a bug is irrelevant. He says a bug is anything a user perceives as wrong.
I used to worry about calling things not-really-bugs, but when I adopted his viewpoint it gave me a better perspective on what's important in software.
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#7Someone needs to get in there and do better bug prioritization...
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#8Someone needs to get in there and do better bug prioritization...
It could be you! ;)
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#9July discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809384
Re: Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory
#10ABP memory usage in Chrome made me switch to router-level ad blocking. Added bonus: it works on mobile too. I have weird page renderings sometimes, and whitelisting a legit site is a pain, but it's overall a huge value to off-load the blocking to the router.
If you're not on your network and you're on android and you're rooted you can sideload adaway to get ad blocking everywhere, including app-based ads.