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Be aware that Adblock Plus for Chrome increases significantly RAM usage for each open tab. uBlock author has extensive benchmarks about this issue. https://gi

by aen0 12y ago

Be aware that Adblock Plus for Chrome increases significantly RAM usage for each open tab. uBlock author has extensive benchmarks about this issue. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-efficiency-compared https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-...

blueskin_ 12y ago
Whichever one it is for chrome I have, it isn't ABP, it's a generic named Adblock. I don't use ABP due to the developer accepting money to whitelist google adverts.
- abrowne 12y ago
  If you don't like that behavior, you probably wouldn't like Ablock's either: https://palant.de/2014/07/29/which-is-better-adblock-or-adblock-plus https://palant.de/2014/07/29/which-is-better-adblock-or-adbl... (Admittedly the author is biased towards ABP. My biases: former Adblock user, former ABP user, current Adblock Edge and µblock user.)
  - blueskin_ 12y ago
    Thanks. Probably going to evaluate http://alternativeto.net/software/ublock/ http://alternativeto.net/software/ublock/ instead next time I have to use chrome.
- gorhill 12y ago
  AdBlock is significantly worst than ABP memory usage-wise (edit: on Chromium, I didn't benchmark elsewhere). I believe this is also the case CPU-wise from observing Task Manager during benchmarks.
sp332 12y ago
Would it have the same problem with a multiprocess Firefox?
- riquito 12y ago
  It may be worse, the problem is that it loads too many info per tab. If you do it on multiple processes it will not get any better.
  - cpeterso 12y ago
    Multiprocess Firefox currently only uses one process for all tabs (plus a browser UI process). The tab process will be sandboxed, so users will get some of the security benefits of multiple tabs without the memory overhead of tab-per-process. If you want to experiment with more than one tab process, you can tweak the about:config pref "dom.ipc.processCount".
    - riquito 12y ago
      Thank you for the informations, I'll experiment.
ben__p__w 12y ago
Some more info on how Adblock Plus is trying to fix the issue: https://adblockplus.org/blog/on-the-adblock-plus-memory-consumption https://adblockplus.org/blog/on-the-adblock-plus-memory-cons...

by aen0 12y ago

blueskin_ 12y ago

Whichever one it is for chrome I have, it isn't ABP, it's a generic named Adblock. I don't use ABP due to the developer accepting money to whitelist google adverts.

abrowne 12y ago
If you don't like that behavior, you probably wouldn't like Ablock's either: https://palant.de/2014/07/29/which-is-better-adblock-or-adblock-plus https://palant.de/2014/07/29/which-is-better-adblock-or-adbl... (Admittedly the author is biased towards ABP. My biases: former Adblock user, former ABP user, current Adblock Edge and µblock user.)
- blueskin_ 12y ago
  Thanks. Probably going to evaluate http://alternativeto.net/software/ublock/ http://alternativeto.net/software/ublock/ instead next time I have to use chrome.
gorhill 12y ago
AdBlock is significantly worst than ABP memory usage-wise (edit: on Chromium, I didn't benchmark elsewhere). I believe this is also the case CPU-wise from observing Task Manager during benchmarks.

sp332 12y ago

Would it have the same problem with a multiprocess Firefox?

riquito 12y ago
It may be worse, the problem is that it loads too many info per tab. If you do it on multiple processes it will not get any better.
- cpeterso 12y ago
  Multiprocess Firefox currently only uses one process for all tabs (plus a browser UI process). The tab process will be sandboxed, so users will get some of the security benefits of multiple tabs without the memory overhead of tab-per-process. If you want to experiment with more than one tab process, you can tweak the about:config pref "dom.ipc.processCount".
  - riquito 12y ago
    Thank you for the informations, I'll experiment.

ben__p__w 12y ago

Some more info on how Adblock Plus is trying to fix the issue: https://adblockplus.org/blog/on-the-adblock-plus-memory-consumption https://adblockplus.org/blog/on-the-adblock-plus-memory-cons...