(08-14-2015, 02:36 PM)mothered Wrote: They mention uBlock Is quote: "Easy on CPU and memory". What's their definition of easy?

There's no documentation on how and why It's light on system resources, hence until I put It to the test, their words mean nothing to me.

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(08-14-2015, 02:47 PM)BlueScreen Wrote: There is actually:

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(08-14-2015, 02:55 PM)mothered Wrote: Still doesn't define anything.

High traffic web pages? What traffic are they referring to and to what degree? I need specifics, not a chart that I myself, can create In mspaint. Thanks for the reply though.

I shall put It to the test over this weekend.

(08-12-2015, 12:32 PM)mothered Wrote: Given It's an extension/addon, whilst It blocks unwanted ads, as a result It can also consume more memory (ram) than It needs to.

For example, If you have 30 tabs open (I easily work with that amount and more), and each tab has ads to some degree, AdBlock will consume physical ram to block each and every ad In each and every open tab. Let's say It uses 40MB of ram (which I've personally experienced) to block ads per tab. Multiply that by 30, and there's 1.2GB of ram being consumed simply by an extension.

Don't get me wrong, It does serve It's purpose well, but what's gained In one aspect, Is lost In another.

(08-14-2015, 03:03 PM)BlueScreen Wrote: They even have a wiki page on how you can properly re-benchmark and reproduce the result.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Firefox-version:-benchmarking-memory-footprint

(08-14-2015, 03:50 PM)eclipse Wrote: RAM was made to be used.

(08-15-2015, 06:33 AM)mothered Wrote: Being used and being "exhausted" for all the wrong reasons, are completely different.

For example, If a given application was responsible for a memory leak, thus consuming all of the available/free Ram and then hitting the Page file (Virtual memory) leaving almost no memory available for critical tasks, then that's certainly a cause for concern- as this can cause significant system Instability and/or crashes.
Given Ram Is volatile (hence a reboot will discharge the Ram and revert to It's peak state), If the problematic application Is still there, memory will be consumed within a matter of minutes.

(08-15-2015, 10:40 AM)eclipse Wrote: I use Adblock, and have been doing so for quite a while. I haven't noticed an abnormal usage of RAM and certainly not enough to impact performance.

Given the way that Chrome works, a separate process for every tab, a lot of RAM is being used anyway. But, as I said, RAM was made to be used and Adblock causes me no concern.

(08-15-2015, 02:24 PM)mothered Wrote: That's fair enough, I appreciate your feedback.

Due to the fact I have so many tabs open simultaneously and the nature of the sites, AdBlock consumes enough memory for my liking. On my 16GB lappy, It's not an Issue. On my 4GB with a VM and multiple applications running, It Is an Issue at times.