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Has anyone encounted any slowdowns or lag with adblock installed?

If i remove adblock my firefox seems to run normal but if i install adblock my firefox seems to be slugish.

It never used to do this - this on a clean install (ccleaner)(speedyfox) have been run.

This was also happening on windows 8 aswell as windows 7 that im on now.

I only ever had 1 list active but both suffer the slugishness.

Easylist & Fanboys list,

Edit

firefox 18 beta 6 (but happens on 17 aswell)

the only other addons i use is noscript / lastpass.

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Adblock+ means sluggishness. :P

Either way, try using only one list.

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Adblock+ means sluggishness. :P

Either way, try using only one list.

No slowdown here. How many lists do you have?

"I only ever had 1 list active but both suffer the slugishness." :doh:

I changed over to (adban)(Advertban) and no slowdown/slugishness. but the only thing with this addon is the annoying popups!

Would opening up the xpi and trying to remove the annoying popup code be to much hassle?

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no problem here.

ff18b5 portable,adb+ 2.2.1

might have problem with noscript

Could there be a change in Beta 6 that would cause this error?

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no slowdown here man, using the latest stable ver of FF and I'm not encountering any problems with the addblock addon :unsure:

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No issues here,either - using the very latest Adblock + 2.2.2.a.3604 on the V20 and V18.0b6.

But, need a clarification - where is the sluggishness being experienced:-

  • in loading of pages or
  • startup/shutdown of Firefox?

The above-mentioned points are two completely different things.

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When I use to surf the web with Firefox, I used AdBlock Edge (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/) instead of AdBlock Plus and it works just fine with that.

Didn't notice much of a slowdown and it doesn't make compromises with the ads (you know what I mean), like AdBlock Plus does. :) From my past experience I can say though, that AdBlock Plus did slow Firefox a bit, though, but doesn't every add-on we install? It's a compromise we'll have to accept when we want to use some add-ons...

But now that I use Google Chrome, I use AdBlock. So I can't test it out too. Don't wanna slow my system down by installing Firefox too to test it out...

Hope the info was helpful. :)

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I changed over to (adban)(Advertban) and no slowdown/slugishness. but the only thing with this addon is the annoying popups!

Would opening up the xpi and trying to remove the annoying popup code be to much hassle?

Read into it and seems good but others are also complaining about the popups.

When I use to surf the web with Firefox, I used AdBlock Edge (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/) instead of AdBlock Plus and it works just fine with that.

Didn't notice much of a slowdown and it doesn't make compromises with the ads (you know what I mean), like AdBlock Plus does. :) From my past experience I can say though, that AdBlock Plus did slow Firefox a bit, though, but doesn't every add-on we install? It's a compromise we'll have to accept when we want to use some add-ons...

Giving this one a shot. But hmm in your experience how does this match up to ABP in regard to memory consumption?

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No issues here,either - using the very latest Adblock + 2.2.2.a.3604 on the V20 and V18.0b6.

But, need a clarification - where is the sluggishness being experienced:-

  • in loading of pages or
  • startup/shutdown of Firefox?

The above-mentioned points are two completely different things.

I notice the slowdown while on Flash Games more then anythign else.

But my pages seem to load faster without Adblock.

Flash and my pages are back to normal after removing adblock (everything is fine with adban).

I cant put it down to noscript cause with that installed everything is working perfect along side AdBan.

Edit

I also use chrome with adblock plus and that has no problems at all.

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In ABP options, UN-check 'show tabs on flash and java'.

did try that - thinking it was tampering with flash but still the same issue - thats the only option really to play with.

Even if i use "disable on this page" firefox is still slugish around flash games (Facebook).

I'm happy with adban - its alot lighter then adblock and no popups have came yet.

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I notice the slowdown while on Flash Games more then anythign else.

But my pages seem to load faster without Adblock.

Flash and my pages are back to normal after removing adblock (everything is fine with adban).

Ah OK, that's a lag in loading of pages - maybe if you marked links here to the pages that lag your Firefox, others could confirm the same, for you.

Personally, pages with flash content are loading more swiftly with ADP+ for me.

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I found AdBlock Plus to slow down both Firefox and Chrome. They also use a ton of memory since they are having to load the whole sandbox process container (plugin-container). It would be much better if the adblocking was implemented at a lower level in the renderer itself.

SRWare Iron Portable (author site / author portable download / PortableApps.com download) is a Chromium rebuild which has a built-in adblocker implemented at the renderer level via a single file adblock.ini. No slowdown at all with SRWare Iron built in adblocker. It seems to catch most everything.

The portable version from PortableApps.com uses the same Data directory as Chrome Portable - so you can move your settings between Chrome and Iron - and they are the exact same Chromium base.

http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1459SRWare Iron is a privacy-enhanced web browser based on chromium, which is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. By default, Iron sends out less information compared to Chrome (e.g. creating a unique user ID or the submission of entries to Google to generate suggestions), which makes it potentially more private and secure in operation. Supports both official and unofficial themes and some Chrome extensions.To block malicious ad servers, add adblock.ini to the "Iron" program folder.

Here is the location for getting adblock.ini from Fanboy for SRWare Iron:

http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/iron/

Although fanboy claimed that he might stop updating the list for Iron and that you could use the Opera list instead in Iron, the Iron list is pretty up-to-date as of 11 Oct 2012

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Using Adblock Edge as recommended by T0nyB. Seems pretty good. The memory usage to me at least is only about 10,000K lower than using AdBlockPlus.

Will probably continue using AdBlock Edge if anything unless there's a better alternative (Extension). Dunnno why I'm not too fond of using a program.

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since adblock edge deliver same as ADBP , i will give it a ride , till now its seems running ok , same functionality as his older brother ADBP.

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You could try installing Memory Fox. This would help with lowering the memory used by add-ons and the browser itself.

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