![]() 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. On the ExtremeTech homepage there are 10, which is pretty low. On a modern website, there can be dozens of iframes. You can probably see where this is going. ![]() 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. 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. Basically, ABP inserts a massive CSS stylesheet - occupying around 4MB of RAM - into every single webpage that you visit, stripping out the ads. The main problem, though, is the process by which ABP actually blocks ads. 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.
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