If you have adblock plus installed and firefox or chrome seem. Mozilla recently analyzed memory usage of a version of firefox without addons installed, and a version with the most popular addon adblock plus installed. Adblock plus may be slowing it, and your computer, to a crawl by konrad krawczyk may 16, 2014 the reason why ad blocking browser add. The memory usage was a major problem for a couple of days. Observe the new adblock plus icon at the bottom right of the browser.
Its usually named something obvious like adprotect. A user reported a memory leak on trunk if adblock plus is installed. One mozilla developer took a look at adblock plus effect on firefox ram usage and found that for every ad the extension blocks, it uses up a little bit more memory. Hello, just thought that i would share this with everyone. Firefox uses too much memory or cpu resources how to fix. I usually run ghostery and another ad blocker, cant tolerate the junk ads either. Chrome to run up huge amounts of memory, especially when chrome is left open for a while. Bug 630072 just got a patch that fixed one memory leak, but there isnt any tryserver build for it yet. Adblock plus abp is the most popular addon for firefox.
Adblock plus could be the reason firefox and chrome are. Note that adblock plus has been reported to cause memory issues. Firefox hardware acceleration eases memory and cpu usage in many cases. Its got more than million users, almost 3 times more than ubo, which is still quite new, but very promising. In case the lists dont work, you can always open up blockable scripts in adblock plus or ublock origin and block the detector script that way.
Start firefox in safe mode to check if one of the extensions 3bar menu button or tools addons extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem. For instance, adblock plus used to use a lot of memory, but this was improved by. Firefox 41 will use less memory when running adblock plus. Just wondering if there had been any progress on the ff memory leak. Adblock pluss effect on firefoxs memory usage nicholas. Hopefully, though, with abp aware of the issue, they might be able to fix it. The former is indeed shady, the plus version is the original, the father of all adblockers thats been around ever since firefox extension support has. Leaked 4 out of 8 dom windows leaked 4 out of 29 documents leaked 0 out of 4 docshells if you want to leak a bit more, insert this step.
Id like to try a build with both patches included to see if there is an improvement. Page 1 of 3 stop firefox from hogging memory posted in tips and tricks. Firefox 41 released with adblock plus memory improvements. To begin with, according to mozilla developer nicholas nethercote, there is a 6070mb memory hit having adblock plus run in the background on. Adblock plus is a firefox addon with an extremely powerful functionality. When i activate adblock my ram usage of firefox goes from 400mb to 900mb. Hi guys, i am using adblock on the latest firefox on a windows 10 pro 64bit system. Adblock plus homepage board index open adblock plus forums adblock plus for firefox support. Firefox 41 released with adblock plus memory improvements and more a new stable version of firefox is ready for download sep 22, 2015 12.
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