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Myth: uBlock is just slightly less resource intensive than Adblock Plus

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Gitoffthelawn edited this page Jun 17, 2015 · 4 revisions

Rigorous benchmarks demonstrate that uBlock is significantly less resource intensive than Adblock Plus (ABP).

Sloppy benchmarks can lead to the misconception that uBlock is just a tad less resource intensive than ABP. Examples:

  • Using memory footprint figures before the browser's garbage collector kicks in
  • Not taking measures to avoid tainting memory footprint with Chromium bug 441500
  • Using memory footprint figures while option pages for one of the extension are opened
  • Disregarding the contributed memory footprint to web pages
  • Comparing memory footprint after extensions have run for a significantly different amount of time
  • Using memory footprint figures after one of the extensions has performed a one-time resource-intensive task (updating filter lists, etc.)
  • Not taking into account the amount of filters in both extensions
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