zoran Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Eyeo GMBH, the company behind the popular content blocker Adblock Plus, has just released version 3.5 of the browser extension for all supported platforms (it shows up as 0.9.14 in Microsoft Edge). Adblock Plus is one of the most popular adblocking extensions. It has the most users of all Firefox extensions and its Chrome extension is equally popular. Adblock Plus 3.5 improvements The company promises that the new version of Adblock Plus is five times "faster at recognizing and blocking ads" than previous versions, and that the extension uses "up to 60 percent less CPU" compared to previous versions as well. The company notes: In addition to the already fast and battle-tested ad-blocking capabilities of our previous release, one of the most valuable improvements for users is that the new version uses up to 60 percent less CPU, or Central Processing Units. Also, Adblock Plus is now 5x’s faster at recognizing and blocking ads. The improvements look impressive on paper; it is unclear, however, if the improvements are noticeable by users of the extension. If the benefits are in the millisecond range, users might not see much of an improvement. I ran a quick -- unscientific -- test using the latest version in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome and the results were promising. Page loads were quick and CPU usage was low during the entire operation. It is necessary to run comparison tests to really find out how much of an improvement this is for users of the extension. I contacted Eyeo GMBH to find out more about the improvements and will update the article when I receive a reply. Eyeo GMBH launched Adblock Plus 3.4 in 2018 promising that the new version would reduce memory usage by 50%. It still used more memory than uBlock Origin, another content blocker that many see as the most resource friendly of them all. The new version of Adblock Plus is already available on the company website and the Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Opera extension stores. Users who have the installed the extension already should receive an automatic update to the new version. Anyone else may download and install the extension from the browser's extensions store. source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 12 Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 Still on 1.6-version ( IE11) , when searching for updates ; "latest version already installed……" ??! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkc21 Posted March 15, 2019 Share Posted March 15, 2019 does anyone use adb? Since I switched to ublock never looked back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 15, 2019 Administrator Share Posted March 15, 2019 @zoran: Please add a source link. Not going to trust them again here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylemessiah Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 People deserted Adblock Plus eons ago as they were caught out taking money to let ads through Theyve never recovered the userbase from alternates like uBlock, and never will....simple as that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 13 hours ago, mkc21 said: does anyone use adb? Since I switched to ublock never looked back! Exactly! uBlock Origin and AdGuard have been, by far, better options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Quote Adblock Plus 3.5 Promises 5x Faster Blocking I promise You, tomorrow is white 5 times whiter than today! You don't believe? Why not, if we promise, that is the case. It doesn't matter that it's not possible. If we want, then we'll do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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