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Iframe irony: Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
- By Sebastian Anthony on May 14, 2014 at 11:31 am
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Here's a lovely bit of irony for you: Adblock Plus, which is by far the most popular add-on for Firefox and Chrome, is actually increasing the amount of memory used by your web browser, rather than decreasing it. Furthermore, ABP also increases the amount of time (and CPU cycles) required to render a website. Instead of making web surfing more responsive, ABP actually makes your surfing experience slower.
This might seem counterintuitive at first — after all, ABP blocks all of those annoying animated Flash ads from loading, and so it should save you from unnecessary memory and CPU hits. Unfortunately, the actual situation is a lot more complex than that. Basically, ABP has grown too big for its own good, and just the very process of running ABP in your web browser consumes more memory and CPU cycles than it saves.
To begin with, according to Mozilla developer Nicholas Nethercote, there is a 60-70MB memory hit having Adblock Plus run in the background on Firefox. The main problem, though, is the process by which ABP actually blocks ads. Basically, ABP inserts a massive CSS stylesheet — occupying around 4MB of RAM — into every single webpage that you visit, stripping out the ads. This wouldn't be a problem if we were still in the '90s or early '00s, but nowadays it is very common for a webpage to have lots of iframes, which are separate, individual webpages that are loaded and embedded within the page you're currently looking at. The most common example is the ubiquitous social sharing widget (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) which is actually an iframe containing a separate webpage hosted on Facebook/Twitter's servers.
You can probably see where this is going. On a modern website, there can be dozens of iframes. On the ExtremeTech homepage there are 10, which is pretty low. In Nethercote's testing, he found that TechCrunch used around 194MB of RAM without ABP enabled — but that doubled to 417MB with ABP enabled, after triggering all of the social widgets. In an extreme example, the VIM Color Scheme Test website — which has hundreds of iframes — goes from a few hundred megabytes of memory to almost two gigabytes. Nethercote only tested ABP's memory consumption in Firefox, but we performed the same test in Chrome and got the same results.
It's harder to measure the CPU hit from having ABP enabled, but after some non-scientific testing it definitely feels like websites render more slowly with ABP installed. My CPU fan spins up more often when ABP is enabled, which is usually a good indicator that the CPU is being hit hard.
The irony, of course, is that ABP's initial popularity stemmed from its ability to block noisy, annoying, and resource-hogging Flash ads. Now, because ABP's block list is so large, it probably consumes more RAM and CPU cycles than it saves (though it will vary from site to site, of course).
Personally, I stopped using ABP long ago because free websites rely on advertising revenue — and I don't want those free websites to go under. If you're more worried about advertisers tracking you across the web, disabling third-party tracking cookies or using an add-on like NoScript is a much more effective (and efficient) route than using ABP. For annoying Flash ads, click-to-play add-ons like Flashblock (Firefox/Chrome) are a better option than ABP.
The other option, if you really want to block ads (especially those pesky pre-roll video ads on YouTube and the like), is to use some kind of ad-blocking proxy server. Privoxy is free, and if you run it locally there should be a minimal performance hit. As with all proxy servers, though, the one caveat is that it doesn't work with HTTPS connections (which is a problem, because you really should be using HTTPS connections wherever possible, if you want to escape the ever-watchful eye of cyber crooks and the government).
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http://www.indiandragon.in/ indiandragon
Not just Chrome and Firefox, but Safari has also faced the memory issue with ABP. So I've been using Ghostery. It seems better on all browsers.
People use Safari?
So you recommend https, but have you ever tried the https version of ExtremeTech? Certificate is registered to an akamai domain so you get a certificate error.
http://ziffdavis.com/ sal cangeloso
It's self-signed. Works for our purposes.
Fair enough. The whole certificate signing process is a sham anyways.
http://www.korbutt.pl/blog shaughnessy
So Adblock propably eats more memory then it should. Still worth it if you ask me.
Not really an issue if you ask me. RAM is pretty cheap these days and even with increased CPU cycles, web browsing is not a very CPU intensive activity.
Improved performance is not the reason most people (anyone) uses ABP.
KUDOS! I agree 100%. I've used Ad-Block Plus on Firefox for years now. Occasionally I turn it off, just to see what happens. It's like coming out into a snowstorm at 5 below zero! Even the "respected" websites are chock full of annoying animations and auto-play video ads…argh. I feel sorry for those who don't realize they could get rid of all this crap with AdBlock Plus. Today, I found out that AdBlock now exists for Internet Explorer! Immediately downloaded/installed it. Works like a charm on IE-11 Windows 7, just like FFox. If it slows down my browsing, it's not noticeable. Besides, like you said NoldorElf.., you don't use AdBlock Plus to achieve a speedier web…you use it for a LESS ANNOYING Web.
-Allen in Chicago
Load it, and go to bloomeberg. Time the page load and responsiveness with, and without. It does speed loading. This is paid advertising so sites getting their adds blocked don't have as many people blocking them.
Yes, it's for getting rid of that annoying intrusive advertising. No, it doesn't cause nearly as much disruption as this lie would have you believe.
The problem is that even though you may have enough RAM, Firefox will slow down significantly as it uses more RAM. I have seen page rendering speeds fall through the floor as it approaches 1 GB of RAM usage. Only thing that fixes that is to close the browser completely and reload it only to have it slow down again as RAM usage creeps upward.
I have a decent machine with 16 GBs of RAM, an SSD, and an Intel Core i5 3570k CPU.
I myself have gone to the EasyList without Element Hiding and have seen a significant improvement in AdBlock Plus performance. It seems that Element Hiding is what kills rendering performance over time and RAM usage to sky-rocket.
Thank you
Ford F150
agreed 1000%, If ABP is giving you problems then maybe its time to upgrade your hardware! even if it slowed down significantly, which it doesnt, id still love it, I hate those stupid constant ads on every site. Without ABP the internet isnt even browsable in my opinion!
I don't want to deny revenue to good sites either. However, even the best of them sometimes have crappy pop-up ads. I do have flash set as click to run, but that doesn't take care of all of them. (As for pop-ups, I may be conflating my mobile experience with desktop. I switch between them so much.)
On the mobile scene, I only recently side-loaded ABP for Android. Main problem I encountered there was with the PlayStore. Connection was repeatedly timing out, presumably because of necessary proxy settings. And, of course, on mobile there are many more full-screen ads. I got tired of refreshing PlayStore. So, any suggestions to deal with mobile ads?
http://ellelaurelrose.com/ Elle Laurel Rose
Yes, I used to be anti-AdBlock, but then things got more annoying (again, cycles, I guess). I now only use it sparingly … or more sparingly than many, at least. I want to support bloggers and others but not if it'll send me into a rage at the Internet (a frequent issue of mine).
Simone Gliori
Try AdAway: it works with the host file.
"the very process of running ABP in your web browser consumes more memory and CPU cycles than it saves."
Who runs ABP for memory reasons?!? we run it to get rid of all the annoying crap that goes beyond what most of us can call reasonable advertising. I have no problem with websites using adds for a revenu stream, I dont use the defualt block list, but develop my own. When something gets obnoxious and takes up half the screen it my mouse gets near it, or randomly starts streaming loud audio all on its own, it gets the axe. IF if sits on the top/bottom/sides and doesnt be a pain, it gets to stay, i may even click if its interesting. Never have i used ABP to save a little ram. Its hard to worry about saving ram when i generaly end up with 15+ tabs open anyway…
Glenn Scott
"Who runs ABP for memory reasons?!? We run it to get rid of all the
annoying crap that goes beyond what most of us can call reasonable
That's why I run it.
I don't have a problem with advertising on web sites. I have a problem with all of the beeping, bonking, flashing, scrolling, waving and AUDIO that comes with them.
Comparing the up votes, I think we can conclude that most people dont run it for memory reasons.
Also, ABP blocks the entire ad. So it gets rid of "all of the beeping, bonking, flashing, scrolling, waving and AUDIO that comes with them."
yup, so it seems. I do like that firefox (and i think a few other browsers) show the speaker icon on the tab makeing noise now so you can just close the tab.
Amen. I am lucky to only have 15 tabs open most of the time. And my browsing is far faster and far less aggravating with ABP than without. Cleaner and safer too. Sorry, not buying this propaganda. I'll never browse the web w/o ABP again. Using IE is painful, in part because it doesn't have ABP.
http://twitter.com/nferno nferno
I installed ABP a few months ago when watching a long video on dailymotion rendered a commercial every 5 minutes. Overall memory use before and after has been negligible.
There may be a performance hit and an increase in the usage of RAM but on computers with weak graphics cards, the performance hit when not using it is much greater.
I don't believe there should be NO ADs…Advertising supports our media environment, whether it be TV, Internet or plain dead-tree Magazines.
What I Don't accept is the Non-Stop BARRAGE of Idiocracy. Contrary to popular beleif, I respect Good Advertising made by inventive, Creative Advertising people. If it's done intelligently, it will have an open door to me wandering the pointer over and clicking. When it's idiotic, ULTRA-FREQUENT and repetitive…like the ads on Hulu…I will blank them out or gosh-darn-it…I'll PAY Apple iTunes for the ad-free download.
And lastly– lot of websites have become the online equivalent of standing in the middle of Times Square during a traffic jam while a string of helicopters circle overhead.
And let's not forget that some of those multitudes of ads are Hacked trojans hiding in the mix…another reason to Block ALL of them.
I have Adblock running on ALL of my office machines…and I am unconcerned about the memory load. The Problem ISN'T the AdBlock…it's the ADS!!!!
I used it on a old computer and I could finally browse and scroll through the pages much faster, definitely a big performance improvement on several old machines where I tried it! (also the reason why I installed it) And on my main computer I have 16GB RAM, so I don't care. Neither do I cause less revenue for people since I NEVER click ads. But yeah, I see that point about the revenue… (I earn money my self on ads)
I can vouch first hand for every bit of this comment from my own experience and from supporting my customers.
It suspect Google Adsense team. This should be their master/dumb plan to make it look like its all Ad Block's fault ! After all its their revenue..
Ray C
Probably so
That's my vote.
Tune My Heart Lord Jesus
NoScript? Ugh! That is the most intrusive add-on ever. Call it NoThanks. I got tired of the "guess which of these processes you need to re-enable to get the website to work correctly" game. I use both Hosts files and ABP or AdAway (android) to make unwanted advertising as non-intrusive as possible. If I could rid the planet of every "weird trick" advertisement it would be done already.
I love NoScript and use Firefox exclusively due to the fact that I CAN run NoScript.
Unintuitive? Yes, I will openly admit to that. Powerful? Absolutely. I am sorry that you find it bothersome to learn to comprehend what is going on inside your browser so that you can tell it what…and what you don't…want it to do, but I am quite happy with it.
When you know that you are on a trustworthy site and you are having problems turning on the correct subdomain, there is always the "Allow Global" function to use as a [temporary] measure. Turn off Global after you've finished with that abysmal, horrible, ad / tracking / useless media-infested site that you were on and then go on your way.
For many web sites I don't bother activating their base domains at all and simply read as "raw" presented; about the only subdomain that I can say that I allow with any frequency is…Disqus. Ironic, isn't it?
http://www.something.com/ standard
I'd quite happily sacrifice a bit of my 8GB RAM, or a few clocks of my 4GHz quad core i5, or a second of my free time, if it means I don't have to sit through minutes of adverts before a video, or be distracted/annoyed by a moving image while I'm trying to read.
That said, if ABP could be more efficient, yes please.
David Spake
I've been using Adblockers for years and years, and have it installed by default on every Firefox and Chrome install I use (including everyone's machine at work). I use it simply because even though I might trust the website, I don't trust the advertising networks those sites use. Since instituting it at work, all of the fake antivirus warnings, malware banners, Trojans and other BS has completely disappeared.
Until websites start validating their own advertising networks, and we learn to trust them, I'll take the (negligible) performance and memory hit from Adblock, Ghostery, Flashblock and other addons.
Key word there, negligible hit. And it speeds up browsing significantly by giving you far less bandwidth to consume and far fewer elements to load.
Ford F150
sadly since i started using it I dont win free Ipads anymore ;(
Ray C
The sites I need Adblock to work on, it doesn't work for me. Like websites I go to watching live sports that have Ads all over the place. The one place I think it works for me is when I go on network websites and watch tv shows. I'm assuming it's because of adblock. The shows play straight though like I'm watching them on Netflix, instead of stop for a commercial at each of those little lines. It's not really something I even tried to do. I just noticed it one day
Ken B
Here's some irony. I have no problem with websites using ads to bring in extra revenue. But it's those few but terrible ads that drives people to block them using Ad Blockers. Now even if they think 99% of the ads are ok, it's that 1% that ruin it for both users and websites.
I'd love to see some kind of campaign where users are encouraged to disable their Ad-Blocker while websites are more concerned about what ads actually display on their websites. I know this is one big conundrum to solve.
What I want, as a user, is a system to punish the obnoxious ads, blocking only those, and somehow show the websites and ad publishers specifically which those ads are. What I want.. is to punish publishers of bad obnoxious ads, not all ads and the websites that depends on them. But how would such a system work? We're on the verge of web 3.0, I'm sure some clever people could figure it out.
ABP lets you whitelist pages and domains.Anything on the whitelist wont be blocked. I think you want to specifically block some of the ads on a page, which I dont think is possible.
Ken B
Blocking specific ads are indeed quite possible.
It would be great with a "reverse Ad-blocker" of where all ads are visible by default, but with right-click, the Ad Blocker would show you a list of all known ads/ad rules for that specific site, allowing you to block an ad with minimum effort. The problem now with this approach is that you have to figure out the correct rule to block just the ad, which is not always so easy as advertisers try to complicate it as much as possible. And since many people are lazy by nature, they then rather go by the approach of blocking all ads by default instead.
In short: An ad-blocker showing all ads by default, but with ready-to-deploy ad-rules for specific sites at a single right click.
Who has ever used ABP to reduce the usage of the RAM?!! It's has always been used to make the web page cleaner and to focus on the content of it rather than all of these flashy ads, I don't really care what it takes to do that I am still really satisfied with it.
http://www.wisetechglobal.com/ Laurence Grayson
I think, if all the little script kiddies out there would spend less time trying to hack OS's and concentrate more on DoS attacks on any advertisers, the net would be a lot better place!
A site that runs on ads suggesting an ad-blocking program is bad for a completely arbitrary reason? Now I've seen it all! /sarcasm.
No one runs AdBlock to save RAM.
People run AdBlock to save their sanity.
http://ellelaurelrose.com/ Elle Laurel Rose
Oh I was just typing something similar up there, but I went more specific and commented that it saves me from rrrraging, haha.
The way I do it is to have one browser with it installed and the other without it. On sites like this that you want to support that don't have intrusive pop-ups and pop over ads, just use the browser without ABP. For other stuff, use it and just deal with the extra memory usage.
I run it so I can see the information I want rather than my eyes being subverted to whatever thingamabob or service they are advertising today. With 12gb ram I don't get impacted by memory usage from websites.
I've been using a combination of FlashBlock and ABP ever since I got a couple nasty infections from compromised sites with flash ads that installed trojans. Is it completely redundant to run both, or is FlashBlock truly sufficient for the task?
Nope, each serve different purposes. And flashblock gets some flash elements that AP doesn't. ABP gets all manor of advertising, where as FB gets only flash elements.
Happily running ABP + Remove Element + Ghostery. All three simultaneously. No perception of laggg here, no reason to change it.
Victor Carvalho
I don't care. I have 8 gigs of RAM and six CPU cores, and I don't want to be washed with advertising.
Adblock FTW!
If it slows down my computer, I'll just get a FASTER cpu & more ram. The ads on websites are annoying, and some that for various reasons, I have to turn off the blocking, automatically run stupid youtube ad videos now. Here you are, reading a webpage, and music, or another annoying sounds pop up and you have to scroll around the page to find the stupid pause/stop button. The way I look at it, I didn't open them, I shouldn't have to close them. Let ABP eat all the ram & cpu that it wants, I don't want the ads!
Joel Detrow
That explains why my Firefox regularly hits 2GB of RAM usage. Though ever since update 29, it's been crashing A LOT. I stay on the Beta, though.
This means one thing: ABP needs an opt-in mode, where it's disabled on every website by default, and you turn it on for specific websites that annoy you.
Michael K
Anyone geek enough to read this site probably has plenty of ram anyway.
http://www.everythingillegal.com.au/ Damien O'Brien
1.2 GB here on
Opera 20+
Opera Next 20+
Mobile Opera Crashed XD
Scott Newman
Unless you're like really really poor, most people's computers have enough ram that a measly 2GB is nothing nowadays.
It's not like I ever click on ads anyway. Obnoxious, intelligence-insulting internet ads just reduce the chance of my buying something.
So I keep adblock plus switched on full-force and uncheck even "allow unintrusive advertizing". Haters gonna hate. My internet looks better.
Unless you are really rich 2GB is at least 25% of your available memory. You are talking about 2GB for 1 tab in 1 instance of firefox. Most people open more.
But the main point is that, filling 2GB with meaningful data takes LOTS of time, especially since your CPU cache will be useless when these amounts of memory are modified.
2GB is a huge amount of memory to be used by a single process and it is going to remain so for many years to come.
1 tab with ABP does not take 2 GB.
I went to techcrunch, loaded a dozen pages from it, and could only push memory usage up to 95 megs. Test out their claims first. This article is mostly false, and the behest of advertising agencies to insult and assault you more.
Pasha Pasha
wow, can't you stop that bull-s? 1 tab = 2G? Is that how things are on the moon?
The most vulnerable people to ads are college graduates who claim that ads don't affect them.
Tomas Gjerstad
I would like to know what computer specs was on the test rig. If a CPU fan speeds up only by open a browser with AddBlock enabled this must be a really outdated old laptop or something. I hardly believe this test is relevant for most owners of newer computers today that have 8GB of memory or even with 4GB it still should work just fine.
And by the way, I love AddBlock and been using it for ages.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
A modern CPU — Core i7-4770K.
Not exactly on topic, but speaking of memory, I noticed something odd. I installed both FF and Chrome around the same time, with FF being my primary choice. About 4-5 months after installation, I noticed that my Chrome install folder had grown from around 40-50MB at the time of install to about 600MB. Meanwhile, FF was the same as always.
I know this has nothing to do with caching, or temp files or anything. I use CCleaner to clean both simultaneously. So there's no chance for that. How is it that my Chrome "got bigger"?
LOL. Sebastian warns us of the dangers of ABP. The real danger being that Extremetech doesnt get any revenue from those of us who run ABP.
Man, I Adblock the Pirate Bay. So that's all you need to know about me and revenue generation.
Pirate bay is chockfull of porn ads, so that's totally justified.
Hulu Lu
But who uses ABP for memory or speed, we use it to get rid of Ads because they are just out of control.
Chris Simon
What are the specs of the computer you are using for the test?
What sites did you use for the test?
Seems to me this test might have been skewed against ABP by using known jumbo sites and a older computer.
I've had Chrome open for several days of surfing and I have had at least 20 tabs open and I'm runnning ABP and Im not getting results like this.
http://www.mrseb.co.uk/ Sebastian Anthony
Yep, it's definitely more noticeable on sites with lots of iframes.
On many sites the difference will probably be negligible.
But also, if people have been using ABP for a long time, they will have a different "normal" level — i.e. even if it's always been slow, it will still feel normal-speed to them.
I don't use ABP — so when I installed it, surfing felt slower. But I'm just one data point :)
Eeeer …. Chris actually called you a moron, or a liar. But in a really nice way, so you being who you are didn't notice it.
60-70MB hit?! *GASP* Damn, I guess I should finally get more than 512MB of ram then? o_O
I will do anything or loose everything to stop that VUBE pop up
Roberto Tomás
recently I noticed HTTP Switchboard, and it looks really interesting to me. But I'm not clear yet how to use it in combination with chrome's 3rd party content blocking … should I get rid of that, and let 3rd parties use local content, with HTTP SB handling everything? Anyway — I'm hoping some tech site like extreme tech will do some good coverage on http sb and how to use it.
I don't have ad block yet, I use a great pay for thing called Ad Muncher which is worth the small price. There are still a few but well managed ads. What I need is something that will block the idiot driven force by YTube to have recommended videos show up in great numbers. It's been suggested that AdBlock will do that on You Tube.
http://meelahi.wordpress.com/ Manzoor E Elahi
This comes as no surprise to me. But I willing to sacrifice that much for the sake of not seeing stuff enlargement ads in front of people. Also if I cannot allocate 100MB for this, then what's the point of having 16GB??
I basically do not have problems with ads but these autoplay videos were getting annoying, sometimes two three playing together were regularly crashing my browser. I installed adblock plus and things are smooth now. I do not think with 3-4GB memory at my disposal i do not mind spending 70-80MB for ABP. At least I am saved of those annoying Justin Tiberlake song videos playing everytime I open a news page I regularly visit.
James Tolson
i use Adblock, and i will continue using it.. i sympathies with the fact that free (and not free) websites use ads to generate revenue, but ad content over the last 10 years has got ridiculous.. the entire internet is becoming one big advertisement.. now i would not mind animated gifs like we had in the 90's or even the odd pop up every now and again.. but Over the top flash content, and fake hyperlinks and sound playing ad videos take up most webpage space and actual content is getting smaller and smaller? and don't get me started on the porn/fake dating related redirects which gets me really angry.. if webmasters and web based companies alike want to get rid of things like adblock then they need to rethink their advertising strategies on their webpages to be much less intrusive, you have answered your own question if a webpage is consuming nearly 500mb of ram (most of which is ads, actual text for the article is probably less than 100 kilobytes) then you can see why people use adblock.. yes it uses more ram to quash the ads but that don't bother me, because i just don't want to see them period…
Nowadays, surfing the web without an ad blocker has become a nightmare. God bless ABP. Takes more memory? Try surf the web without it.
Alternatively, you could use AdFender an ad blocking proxy server that uses the same filter lists as ABP and is free.
http://www.adblockplus.com AdblockPlus
Adblock Plus is working on this situation with Mozilla. All of our latest findings and work can be found at the Adblock Plus blog: https://adblockplus.org/blog/on-the-adblock-plus-memory-consumption
Pasha Pasha
Nice AD for google and co! First of, if you want free sites to have revenue you can use exceptions (just two clicks).
As for the performance. Don't know what sites most people visit, but those which I do abuse flash and don't bother optimizing. Havign 4 tabs open all 4 cores of my CPU are busy rendering puffy animation of new BMW or s like that. This was the actual reason i switched to AB. I'd rather trade few hundreds of RAM for CPU performance than watch my mouse cursor making slow mo tricks. After all, RAM is much cheaper to scale than CPU nowadays.
Horatio Postlethwaite
I don't use AdBlock to speed up my browser.
I appreciate your reasoning, Sebastian, but I can't believe you're able to tolerate all those maddeningly blinking, coruscating, flashing, intrusive adverts. I don't mind informative advertising per se, but when an ad uses vertigo-inducing, strobe-like graphics and SCREAMS for my attention, it destroys the reason I went to the web site in the first place and I simply leave. That's why I use ad blockers.
Sky Tripp-Schaefer
hahahahaha said by someone that only goes to Websites non-porn AND NO p2p websites I love ABP and so what if it slows a website down a little bit
this would be relevant if it was just about the memory. but it's about being distracted and BLOCKED from seeing vids. Imagine, when I load a fucking playlist, then hear annoying commercials every 3 songs??? That just won't do.
Plus, you use a bit of faulty reasoning here: ABP does not actually tell the website that the ads don't come through, let alone the advertiser.
ABP rules!
Kurtis Engle
Thanks for the explanation.
I have an Athlon twin core 4600 running 7 and seldom have more than 30 tabs open at once, so this probably doesn't effect me. But just to be sure, I'll eat the $10 and get a third gig of RAM
Still worth it.
But hey, if people really need that extra memory they can try downloading a hosts file that will blocks thousands of ad servers.
Tech Maven
With 12GB of Corsair DDR3 an Intel i7 920 and a WD Velociraptor and fiber to premises…not sweating a thing.
It blocks the ads on this website quite well
i really don't know how to set up the privoxy and those preroll ads on youtube are really annoying.
How is it harder to measure the CPU hit from having ABP enabled? Take a sampling of major websites with varying level of iframe abuse. Clear the cache and test them with nothing else running but your process analyzer. Close the browser, clear the cache again, and test with ABP running.
I'm hard pressed to believe ABP is a serious performance issue, though. I have run both Chrome and Firefox until both became nonresponsive, and at their highest utilization, they don't touch the cap on a single processor or even 1/8th my memory. I've tried the same with all plugins disabled and got no further. Without going too far off topic, I will simply say the bottleneck is the caching and rendering in the browser, not plugins and not hardware. I have a particularly powerful computer (and software that does fully utilize the hardware), but the software limitations were well within what any modern PC is capable of.
The benefit of ABP isn't performance, though, it's security and customization. It blocks increasingly malware laden iframes that keep getting ahead of browser security. You can disable it on specific pages you want to be supportive of, or put in exceptions for non-intrusive ads. It also allows removing non-ad components, such as the "trending topics" on Twitter that were too often flooded with the obscene.
Clearly a paid blatant lie. Test on mine don't measure up. Speed tests of sites load F A R faster. This place is very biased, very political, and this is shamefully worse than usual.
suzane carter
So that you advise HTTPS, however perhaps you have tried out the particular HTTPS model of Extreme-tech? Certificate is usually documented with an akamai site therefore you get a certificates mistake. http://bit.ly/1gWK6ST
so people who display ads, forcing people to use adblock plus, are effectively driving up processing power, which is causing us to use more fossil fuels, and thereby damaging the world. THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WHY ADS NEED TO BE STOPPED!!!
http://ellelaurelrose.com/ Elle Laurel Rose
Hmmmmmm. Judging by the ad behavior on this very page (I noticed while I was deciding what to do about this and also began blocking some elements here) I noticed a conflict of interest! You're not just the friendly self-boss bloggy org, but in favor of obtrusive ads as well. Ah ha…
Mansa Musa
Guys what about having more than one adblocks on your PC? Could ABP work with another adblock? I need an answer, thanks in advance.
I don't care if it consumes a whole lot of this and that. It's a better browsing experience and that's what matters. The propaganda!
Eli Cummings
There's precious little good content on most of the ad supported sites so it wouldn't matter if most of them went away. The rampant commercialization of the web has turned into just another form of "television" which is unwatchable unless one can skip past the ads or just watch premium no ad channels or public broadcasting which has gotten pretty ad friendly itself in the past few years and is full of self promotional filler. I contribute to public media but it hasn't stopped their growing use of time for ads. Maybe they should just do the stuff that people are willing to pay for.
When Pink Floyd came out with "The Wall" album, Pink said "I've gotten 13 channels of sh*t to choose from" – now we have billions if you want to let channels mean web sites (like the old AOL browser).
There are only a handful of people actually generating content. Most web sites just piggy back off those people with intro paragraphs and links to the "full story".
Most advertising is a waste of money. When something is really good it doesn't take long for word to get out.
Advertising is consumer propaganda rather than political propaganda but like all propaganda it tries to do the same thing, move you to an action you would never initiate on your own.
It's success says more about the mental worlds of human beings than it does about anything else. It is evidence of the herd mentality that has always permeated our species and results in ever greater colony organisms of humans.
Mostly it just increases the cost of everything we buy. You don't think the companies are paying those bills do you ?
Asok Asus
I've just been FED UP with FF because of all of the memory leaks, etc. I've been running v16 forever because whenever I've tried to upgrade to newer versions, they'd all pretty much just crash after 30 minutes of heavy use, and not a single version of FF that I've ever used has ever fixed the memory leak problems. Not a single one.
I actually installed a tiny batch file on quicklaunch so I could quickly kill FF at the point it's consumed all of my RAM so I could then start over with "Restore Session" to automatically reload all of my previous tabs. After trying every "solution" to the leak problem, that's the only one that ever did me any good. Apparently the arrogant tards at mozilla would rather tweak the UI to death rather than make a browser that actually works. They're worse than even Microsoft because Microsoft has to listen to their customers sooner or later or go broke, whereas nonprofits can just drift along forever.
At any rate, I just finished installing PM, including importing everything from FF with their little importer program, and everything went flawlessly, including all settings and the plethora of add-ons I use. The only difficulty was getting roboform attached, which I can't live without. I did finally dumb around and got the roboform taskbar program to attach roboform to PM, which then worked flawlessly. It is, however, necessary for the roboform taskbar program to run all the time for roboform to continue to work on PM, but this is a very small price to pay to ditch FF forever.
I've used PM for a week now, opening/closing/keeping hundreds of tabs a day, and I've been stunned at how much faster PM is than FF, as well as the VERY small memory footprint occupied by PM vs FF. Even after a week's HEAVY usage, PM has not grown beyond 1 GB, and even better, when I close tabs, ALL of the RAM is given back.
Basically, PM is what FF ought to be. Even better, the genius behind Pale Moon, Mark Straver, has committed to keeping the PM UI fundamentally unmolested. I'll be installing PM instead of FF on all of my client's computers in the future as well!
(BTW, ALL of the "recommended fixes" for the firefox memory leak problems are a sick joke. Not one of them works. And plugins DO NOT cause the memory leaks! Firefox does! How do I know? Because I switched to Pale Moon, importing everything EXACTLY like it was in Firefox and guess what? No memory leaks in Pale Moon! Oh, and I use Adblock Plus, Flash, Java, DoNotTrackMe, BetterPrivacy CookieCuller, DownloadHelper, Element Hiding Helper, IE View, ViewAbout, Visited, and roboform. So NONE of those is causing the firefox memory leak problems!)
Adblock still blocks malicious ads that try and hijack your browser (that popup blockers miss). Take all the memory you want, if it keeps me out of the redirect loop of "You have a VIRUS!!! Download this program now!". Any website supported by advertisers peddling maleware deserve to crash and burn.
Ethan T. H.
I can't believe that you think that you're "doing your duty" just by watching by all those ads. Wake up, man, that's HARDLY ENOUGH–To be a true-blue ad-enabler you have to BUY the products advertised or else it wouldn't be fair to the advertisers. Next time you want to get on your high horse don't just brag about how you watch the ads, you should be listing all the products that you were told to buy and did. Let's see the receipts or else we might suspect you of undermining the system. Where's your loyalty?
The Bobster
I'm now getting display driver errors and the blue screen of death on 2 different computers with IE11. It seems to correspond with me installing Adblock Plus. And when I restart the computer after a crash, the AdBlock settings page pops up.
Cousin Ricky
I guess I'm vindicated. I have refrained from using ad blockers because I know that the ads pay for the sites. They don't bother me unless they're too flashy or they block the content. As for those annoying autoplay videos, a quick Inspect element and delete works for me in FireFox.
In general, I find the social media pop-ups far more annoying than ads. In some cases, social media pop-ups are egregious enough that I just hit the back button.
David Bee
Adblock Plus makes web surfing more responsive? Where'd that come from?
Adblock Plus gets rid of ads, unwanted mass marketing, annoying crap, unwelcome yelping announcers and equally annoying music plus. (Music?!)
It's worth the extra memory to be able to browse in peace, and to be rid of so many false positives from anti Malware and anti virus apps.
Nicholas Nethercote says there is a 60-70MB memory hit having Adblock Plus run in the background on Firefox.
Notice that no one is complaining about that, I use Firefox and Pale Moon with
Adblock Plus, no probs at all, and no ads!
Your choice.
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I read recently that women shorter than 5'5" have a stronger heart. I don't really think a lot about being short (I'm 5'1"), until I have to ask my husband -- who is also short, but taller than me -- to get something for me, or my petite jeans are dragging on the floor. It's nice to know I *might* have a healthier heart.
The next nice tidbit is that fat that settles on your thighs & butt supposedly helps you process blood sugar better. If that's the case, that I'm sure to be a queen when it comes to blood sugar!
Being curvy is something I've mostly made peace with, too. Even though thin is still in, there are enough curvy actresses around now that there are models for us real women too, if we care to look for them -- altho I'd be happy to be as slim as JLo, or Kate Winslet, or Sandra Bullock, for instance. But they have real women's bodies.
The message, of course, is to love your body as it is, since after all it's the only one you're going to get. And to look for the positive in everything, because it's always there if you dig hard enough.
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have
perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that
we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
-- Marie Curie
I was sitting eating some home made mac & cheese the other day -- and not the kind that comes out of the box, either, really home made from scratch. And it's really, really good. Not exactly low fat, but I'm careful to only eat it now and again, and it does at least have butternut squash in it.
Food, for me, can be an almost orgasmic pleasure (can we say that here?). I can remember restaurants I ate at 20 years ago by their scrumptious crepes with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. And it's not just sweets, either. Anything that is truly yummy to me -- even if that's a whole grain dish -- can just float my boat.
And that's where my aha! moment came in. I realized how much more satisfaction I get from eating real food vs eating food that comes out of a box -- whether that be mac & cheese, or a frozen entree. Sure, many box foods taste good; they can even be addictive . . . but they do NOT taste anywhere nearly as good as good food I make myself (although a good restaurant meal is even better, because I didn't have to wash dishes to get it).
It's okay to get this kind of pleasure from "real" food, too -- not so much if all you're eating is chocolate, ding dongs, and cheez whiz -- none of which is "real" food. Okay, yes, chocolate is real food, you got me there. We SHOULD get this kind of pleasure from our food.
If you're eating your food in the car out of a box, or standing up, or throwing out the wrappers and burying them in the trash so no one will see, then you're only cheating yourself. You're denying yourself the pleasure of eating, and why is that? Because you think you're not worthy of a home cooked meal?
Don't get me wrong, of course I know that sometimes your food will be eaten in the car, or out of a box. Life does happen. But if all your food is eaten that way, then you're truly not treating yourself well, and you have to take a good, hard look at the choices you are making -- and how they are effecting your life.
Take time out today. Really enjoy at the very least one meal. Eat it sitting down, with the tv off and no book open, off of real plates. Notice how you feel afterwards. Do you feel satisfied? Nourished? Full? Remember that feeling the next time you're tempted to eat while watching tv or madly dashing off to the next event.
. . . got up and went. I always feel that way this time of year. The shorter days just do me in -- I have no motivation to move at all after it gets dark, and it gets dark way too early. It's a struggle to force myself to exercise. I do it, but my workouts don't always energize me.
I have no excuse today. It was an absolutely, stunningly goregeous day. Low to mid 70s. Bright blue sky. I got up, did the normal feeding circus, knitted for a while while watching the news, walked the dogs, went to my meeting. Came home, ate lunch, watched a tv show. Did my strength training. Emptied the dishwasher & started refilling it. Took the dogs around the block to get the mail, made dinner. Most people do all those things *and* work 8 or more hours a day.
When I thought about writing this blog earlier, I still hadn't finished emptying the dishwasher, and the new dirty dishes were piling up, but I managed to finish that off while I was making my tea after dinner. Still, yesterday's laundry still lies untouched in the dryer.
The scale has been moving in the wrong direction, too. Not much, just barely half a pound, but I had small gains the past couple of weeks, which is unusual for me -- usually I'll have a small gain and then lose the next week. I've addressed some of the little things that I think may have been tripping me up: the little pieces of chocolate (I moved it to a cabinet where I wouldn't see it 10 times a day); the ciabattini rolls that were so great, and I even hollowed them out, but they still weren't exactly small -- I bought some whole wheat hamburger buns this week instead.
My gains may also be due to the reintroduction of weight training. My month of Zumba included toning, but with very light weights (really, really light weights), and I'm back to training with heavier weights. Only I don't feel thinner; I wasn't really surprised to see a gain this week -- although hope does spring eternal.
Do I have a point? Not really. Just venting a bit. My motivation to lose weight is still high, but it's sort of a the mind is willing but the body isn't sort of thing.
That's what I read in a magazine article today when I stopped at the bookstore. The article went on to say that you have to believe in yourself, of course.
I don't think it's desire that works. It's fair to say that the vast majority of people who end up on this site truly do have a desire to lose weight. If they don't -- if they're doing it to please someone else or mollify their doctor, then they most likely won't succeed. There are plenty of people on SP who have the desire, but won't make it.
Belief, as I wrote yesterday, is another story. Belief works. We have to believe we will do this, even when the scale goes up when we don't think it should. We have to believe we will do this, even when the scale stays stuck for weeks or even months.
There are times when it does seem too hard or too time consuming. I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night, and I was pretty tired today. I did my exercise, I made myself a healthy lunch, but when I got to the bookstore I found myself briefly wondering why can't I go get myself a treat? Really, what difference will one high fat, sugar laden cookie make in the scheme of things?
I won't keep you in suspense; I didn't get the cookie. It probably didn't help that I was just a little bit hungry, even though I'd had a healthy snack before hitting the bookstore. I will have a home made treat tonight. One that isn't quite so high fat or sugar laden, but still quite satisfying (and chocolate, of course); one that I made myself, so I know what's in it -- down to the blueberries & spinach (yes, that's right, you'd never know they're in there).
That article was part of what helped me resist the cookie. The scale hasn't been moving much lately. That's not so bad, except for the fact that I feel pudgy. It's a couple of weeks before TOM, though, and often I do feel pudgy around now.
One thing I know for sure: I know where I get when I let myself go. I don't want to go there again. I feel so much better, and I know that while getting to goal weight won't make my problems magically disappear, it will make me feel good about myself. And I'm worth it.
Ok, I just couldn't help injecting a little advice from our president-elect (in the US, that is). In all these many months of campaigning, I didn't stop to think about how pertinent Obama's advice is for those trying to make a lifestyle change, no matter what that change may be.
"Yes, we can". Believe in yourself. It will get you through the good times *and* the bad times.
"Change we can believe in". This goes hand in hand with the above statement. We have to believe that the changes we make are changes we can sustain for the rest of our lives.
I didn't plan this blog; it just came to me. But these sentiments are truly at the bottom of lifestyle changes. Believe, believe, believer. And of course never give up.
"I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?"
-- William Stafford
Why do we stop? Why do we give up? Often times it's frustration at a scale that won't budge. Which is why it's so important to not go only by the scale, and why the scale isn't the end-all and be-all of measurements. I haven't lost much weight recently, I don't feel thinner, but I have dropped another inch off my waist (can't say as I feel it) -- and in the photos my husband took yesterday, I can actually see some changes in my body -- even if I can't feel them.
Sometimes it's what we think is a lack of will power, but the truth is, it's changes that are too radical that we can't sustain, whether that's too much exercise or too restrictive eating.
Sometimes we just lose the faith. We figure that we were just meant to be fat; why fight it?
I have been there, done that with all of this. And I'm done. The number isn't important -- how I *feel* is important. If I want something, I have something -- but I enjoy it; no more furtive eating for me. I can take a break from exercising without ballooning up overnight.
And my wandering blog is back to balance yet again.

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The Sochi Olympics provided plenty of moments to remind us that while terrible things can happen everywhere, wonderfully inspiring things always happen at the Olympics -- whatever our fears, wherever they are held.Story | Conversation | February 23, 2014
2014 Sochi Olympics -- Andrew Weibrecht, Bode Miller defy their o...Jim Caple
Competing in a sport that demands a lot on the body, Bode Miller and Andrew Weibrecht defied their own odds to podium in the super-G and reverse the fortunes of the U.S. Alpine team.Story | Conversation | February 16, 2014
2014 Sochi Olympics -- Evgeni Plushenko deserved better ending to...Jim Caple
Evgeni Plushenko had big hopes for these Games on his home soil. After helping Russia win the team event, one of the greatest skaters the sport has seen deserved a better way to end his career.Story | Conversation | February 13, 2014
MLB - 2014 Topps baseball cards a sign spring training is nighJim Caple
Nothin' says the end of winter like the release of the new set of Topps baseball cards. (OK, it's still cold, but Off Base felt warm spring training breezes as soon as he opened the first pack.)Story | Conversation | January 30, 2014
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Jim Caple finds Husky Stadium remodel merely improves on perfection.Story | Conversation | August 30, 2013
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Barry Zito and Tim Lincecum earned trophies in years past, but their Game 1 work could help the Giants win World Series hardware now.Story | Conversation | October 24, 2012
2012 Olympics -- 'World's Greatest Athlete?' Yeah, that's Ashton ...Jim Caple
Ashton Eaton and Trey Hardee pulled off a rare American feat in the Olympic decathlon, a feat that warrants a very specific level of respect.Story | Conversation | August 09, 2012
2012 Olympics -- Why does decathlon bore us?Jim Caple
Yes, it takes two days and the scoring is complicated, but decathlon is not boring, Jim Caple writes.Story | Conversation | August 08, 2012
2012 Summer Olympics -- Oscar Pistorius is Games' greatest feel-g...Jim Caple
How can anyone not root for South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who in competing with carbon-fiber prosthetics is proving to the world that anything is impossible, even running in the Olympics without legs.Story | Conversation | August 03, 2012
2012 London Games -- Beach volleyball venue is Olympic's coolestJim Caple
Chock in the center of London, the Horse Guards Parade has morphed into a beach volleyball paradise and the coolest venue of these -- or perhaps any -- Olympic Games.Story | Conversation | July 30, 2012
Some athletes to make early ceremony exitJim Caple
Marching in the Olympic opening ceremonies can be the greatest moment of an athlete's career. It can also be the longest line you've ever stood in, a line so long it makes the queue for Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean ride seem like the 15-item...Blog | July 27, 2012
Off Base: All-Star voting attack ads loomingJim Caple
Voting for the All-Star Game blends America's two greatest attributes -- democracy and baseball. Of course, if the All-Star fan vote was a little more like the presidential campaign, Fox and CNN pundits would have anointed Carl Crawford the 2012 All-...Blog | June 30, 2012
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With the rise of the Super PACs and the proliferation of outside financial interests, you know it's just a matter of time before we see attack ads in All-Star campaigns.Story | Conversation | June 27, 2012
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The Mariners' unpredictable feat, a six-pitcher no-hitter, took time for even them to figure out.Story | Conversation | June 08, 2012
The Olympic torch has been lit!Jim Caple
Depending on your time zone, the torch-lighting ceremony for the London Olympics was very early this morning/late last night in Olympia, Greece. That was the birthplace of the ancient Olympics, as well as the greatest Turn Back the Clock Day in sport...Blog | May 10, 2012
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The Rays' amazing comeback comeback on the final day of the regular season propelled them into the the playoffs and pushed the Red Sox over the edge.Story | Conversation | December 27, 2011


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|I have to give a speech in my ethics class and thought I'd run it by my garden English teachers first.
Not for subject matter just as much verbiage as I could compress. >smile<
Plus my first blog, so just for fun, I do want help in the grammer and wordage. Please :-) I'm shooting for an A but a B would be good too, or a C.
Here is a link that might be useful: Olericulturist
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|Try to use complete sentences. That's a starting point to improving your grammar.
|Too late, I gave my speech and you are right no one appreciated it, I was relying on the fact that no one was listening. They were, the teacher said it was like listening to someone babbling on about nothing. Really that Bad?
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In this rendering provided by Blue Star Line, the Titanic II is shown cruising at sea. The ship, which Australian billionaire Clive Palmer is planning to build in China, is scheduled to sail in 2016. Palmer said his ambitious plans to launch a copy of the Titanic and sail her across the Atlantic would be a tribute to those who built and backed the original. (AP Photo/Blue Star Line)
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The generosity of donors in America once again helped The Salvation Army reach a new record through its 2012 Red Kettle Campaign – $148.7 million collected through nickels, dimes, quarters and dollars (and the occasional diamond ring or gold tooth). During the 122nd annual campaign, which ran from November 22nd through Christmas Eve, The Salvation Army incorporated concerts, contests and celebrities in a national effort to raise donations to help people through harsh economic conditions. With red kettles hosted at retailers nationwide, donations to the Army support families and individuals in need in the communities in which the donations were raised.
"There are times in American history when people unite around a common cause and work together to help their neighbor. 2012 was no different," said Commissioner William Roberts, National Commander of The Salvation Army. "The Red Kettle Campaign signifies a unified goal – the public cares for people who have fallen on hard times. Every donation allows us to meet our Mission to help people in His name."
Country superstar Kenny Chesney kicked off the iconic Red Kettle Campaign with a live performance at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX on Thanksgiving Day as part of The Salvation Army's partnership with the Dallas Cowboys. For the past 16 years, the Cowboys have helped the Army kick off the National Red Kettle Campaign on a nationally televised stage to more than 30 million Americans during halftime of the Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game. The event reminds others about the importance of giving back when many struggle with life's basic necessities, like food and shelter.Pop sensation Owl City, as well as other music artists, rocked out at another concert – The Salvation Army's third annual "Rock the Red Kettle Concert." The free show at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles was produced by Ned Specktor of Specktor Media and encouraged millennials to support charitable causes. The concert featured performances by Owl City, Hot Chelle Rae, Andy Grammer, Bridgit Mendler, and Sonus. Three-time Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Nathan Adrian, who selected The Salvation Army as his charity of choice for the 2012 Christmas season, also attended the event as a special guest. The concert was streamed live on Facebook for thousands to watch at home. The Red Kettle Campaign was also supported by The Salvation Army's second annual World Record Bell -Ringing Contest, in which eight brave bell-ringers competed to ring a bell for more than 60 consecutive hours. Three bell-ringers, Ryan Gass in Roswell, NM, Jason Perkins in Suisun City, CA, and last year's defending record holder, Darrell Tureskis of Springfield, IL, each surpassed the record by ringing a bell for 80 consecutive hours. At the 80-hour mark, the three contestants laid down their bells in respect of the tragedy that unfolded at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT. Online bell-ringers made significant contributions to the Red Kettle Campaign for the eighth consecutive year. Through The Salvation Army's Online Red Kettle ( onlineredkettle.org), donors were able to raise money with the help of family, friends and colleagues. The Army raised more than $2.1 million through Online Red Kettles, up from $1.7 million in 2011. Other online donations in November and December, not through the Online Red Kettle, totaled $21.2 million, a 17 percent increase from 2011. As part of the total, The Salvation Army received an unprecedented $3.9 million in online donations on the final day of 2012. "For every individual and every organization that supported the 2012 Red Kettle Campaign during this pivotal time of year, The Salvation Army would like to extend our greatest thanks," said Commissioner Roberts. "From our celebrity performers and our gracious volunteer bell ringers, to our corporate partners and the generous public, The Salvation Army has once again seen first-hand the compassion that exists in America and the changes it can make in one's life."
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"Both teams played very hard," commented WCHS head coach Tom Welshans.
Webster got on the scoreboard first with a goal from senior captain Natalie Green, a 25- yarder that zipped past the UC goalie at the 28-minute mark gave WCHS the early lead.
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"We played very well and had some good opportunities to score but were a little unlucky," Welshans added. "Our defense played outstanding."
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Webster held a slim 16-14 shooting edge over the Bravettes.
The Lady Trojans tangle with defending Regional champion Madisonville-North Hopkins Thursday in Madisonville. The will participate in the Trigg County Invitational on Saturday.
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