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AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
[Update: Wladimir Palant has posted a response on the AdBlock Plus blog. Also, a Chrome developer using the handle “Klathmon” has posted numerous good comments in the Reddit discussion of this post , explaining why ad-blockers are inherently CPU- and memory-intensive, and why integrating ad-blocking into a browser…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| May 14, 2014 | AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage by harshal | 492 | 258 |
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