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I've been using both for a while, just uninstalled ABP on this news. Unfortunately, uBlock Origin adds several seconds to Firefox startup time.

maxencecornet 10y ago
I though uBlock point was to be CPU/ram efficient ? That's even what they show in the chrome/firefox store images, it doesn't make much sense to me that it adds several seconds to Firefox startup time Am I missing something ?
- artursapek 10y ago
  I've found uBlock to be much faster than ABP
- thesmallestcat 10y ago
  While it's running it seems smooth and efficient, or at least not a bear like Ghostery. It's something with startup. Anyway, minor nit, it's a great extension.
- gorhill 10y ago
  > Am I missing something ? Be skeptical of claims which come with no technical details whatsoever to help you reproduce it?
paxunix 10y ago
How often are you restarting your browser that this would matter?
- thesmallestcat 10y ago
  As often as I want.
M_Grey 10y ago
If that's happening, I doubt it's uBlock.
- thesmallestcat 10y ago
  I've tested it, it is uBlock. Very fast boot when disabled, several seconds when enabled.
  - M_Grey 10y ago
    That's bizarre! Have you tried disabling everything except uBlock and seeing if that persists? Maybe it's some kind of interaction with other addons causing the problem.
    - thesmallestcat 10y ago
      I think that's the next step, I've done things like this before but generally only to troubleshoot outright breakage caused by some addon. Thanks!
      - M_Grey 10y ago
        My pleasure, I wish you the best of luck with it.
        thesmallestcat 10y ago
        Another user recommended uMatrix as a Ghostery replacement in this thread which I was trying out, and it looks like some Ghostery/uBlock interaction was to blame. My best guess is some Ghostery resource is correctly flagged by uBlock and that the delay I experienced was a request timeout or similar, from Ghostery.
        M_Grey 10y ago
        That makes sense, and oddly enough I was just (literally for the first time, 10 minutes ago) looking at switching out Ghostery for uMatrix. Decision made, thanks.
beagle3 10y ago
Maybe it is interaction between it and another addon. I just removed and reinstalled all my addons last week and performance was dramatically increased. Well, not all my addons - turns out though my Scriptish has been installed since Firefox 3 (now at 45), it wouldn't reinstall after removal for compatibility problems. Not sure why that wasn't automatically detected, and that may have been the performance issue
- thesmallestcat 10y ago
  This is an interesting theory! The only scripting thing I have enabled is Greasemonkey, I'll have to experiment more with combinations.
gorhill 10y ago
> uBlock Origin adds several seconds to Firefox startup time It loads quite fast on Firefox, see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Launch-and-filter-lists-load-performance https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Launch-and-filter-lis... -- see "Setup time" graph, typically less than half a second on Firefox.

maxencecornet 10y ago

I though uBlock point was to be CPU/ram efficient ? That's even what they show in the chrome/firefox store images, it doesn't make much sense to me that it adds several seconds to Firefox startup time Am I missing something ?

artursapek 10y ago
I've found uBlock to be much faster than ABP
thesmallestcat 10y ago
While it's running it seems smooth and efficient, or at least not a bear like Ghostery. It's something with startup. Anyway, minor nit, it's a great extension.
gorhill 10y ago
> Am I missing something ? Be skeptical of claims which come with no technical details whatsoever to help you reproduce it?

paxunix 10y ago

How often are you restarting your browser that this would matter?

thesmallestcat 10y ago
As often as I want.

M_Grey 10y ago

If that's happening, I doubt it's uBlock.

thesmallestcat 10y ago
I've tested it, it is uBlock. Very fast boot when disabled, several seconds when enabled.
- M_Grey 10y ago
  That's bizarre! Have you tried disabling everything except uBlock and seeing if that persists? Maybe it's some kind of interaction with other addons causing the problem.
  - thesmallestcat 10y ago
    I think that's the next step, I've done things like this before but generally only to troubleshoot outright breakage caused by some addon. Thanks!
    - M_Grey 10y ago
      My pleasure, I wish you the best of luck with it.
      - thesmallestcat 10y ago
        Another user recommended uMatrix as a Ghostery replacement in this thread which I was trying out, and it looks like some Ghostery/uBlock interaction was to blame. My best guess is some Ghostery resource is correctly flagged by uBlock and that the delay I experienced was a request timeout or similar, from Ghostery.
        M_Grey 10y ago
        That makes sense, and oddly enough I was just (literally for the first time, 10 minutes ago) looking at switching out Ghostery for uMatrix. Decision made, thanks.

beagle3 10y ago

Maybe it is interaction between it and another addon. I just removed and reinstalled all my addons last week and performance was dramatically increased. Well, not all my addons - turns out though my Scriptish has been installed since Firefox 3 (now at 45), it wouldn't reinstall after removal for compatibility problems. Not sure why that wasn't automatically detected, and that may have been the performance issue

thesmallestcat 10y ago
This is an interesting theory! The only scripting thing I have enabled is Greasemonkey, I'll have to experiment more with combinations.

gorhill 10y ago

> uBlock Origin adds several seconds to Firefox startup time It loads quite fast on Firefox, see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Launch-and-filter-lists-load-performance https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Launch-and-filter-lis... -- see "Setup time" graph, typically less than half a second on Firefox.