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Updated µBlock vs. ABP: efficiency compared (markdown)

Raymond Hill 2014-06-27 19:46:05 -07:00
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µBlock-vs.-ABP:-efficiency-compared.md

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Fun fact: µBlock will actually execute more efficiently if you enable _ hpHosts’s Ad and tracking servers_, the timing of `chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest` goes below 185 ms when this list is enabled. The key is that filters made of plain hostnames are processed in a very efficient way in µBlock.
### Added memory footprint to web pages
### Added memory footprint to web pages
Extensions have their own memory footprint, but they also causes increased memory footprint in web pages. Below you can see the added memory footprint in a very simple web page, [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/). First screenshot is when no extension at all is used, so it's consider it is the reference memory footprint, other screenshots show the new memory footprint caused by each extension.
##### No extension
![No extension](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gorhill/uBlock/master/doc/img/hn-alone.png)
##### Adblock Plus
![ABP](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gorhill/uBlock/master/doc/img/hn-abp.png)
##### µBlock
![uBlock](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gorhill/uBlock/master/doc/img/hn-ublock.png)