Since I went back to firefox those are the only extensions I really miss, there is policeman (https://github.com/futpib/policeman/) but it's not as good as them yet

To whoever develop extensions, please don't focus only on chrome, firefox during the last months has become must better that it was before, if developers only consider chrome, people will eventually migrate to it and firefox will die. Even though chromium is open it won't be good for the ecosystem

[1] https://github.com/Deathamns/uBlock/tree/ports/xpi

I've whitelisted a few sites I like to support (a couple of webcomics, HaD etc).

I have a lot of filters: "62,501 network filters ＋ 40,728 cosmetic filters".

Opera's task manager says the extension is taking up a mere 32MB. Probably not accurate, but a lot better AdBlock (my previous favourite).

Off-topic but I wish people would stop using Mu for project names. Where is the Mu key on the keyboard? I have to copy and paste or alt-code it. Call the project microBlock or something! They use "u" instead of "µ" on Github, so why not just use something else entirely?

µTorrent was the one that really irritated me because I couldn't type "utorr" to search for it on my start menu.

I'd say something to gorhill (albeit far more politely), but it seems childish and ungrateful. He's clearly poured so much time and effort into making such useful software. "Great software but the name is fucking annoying, mate!"

I originally used the mu character in place of the u to emphasize smaller resource footprint relative to similar solutions out there.

I've never been good with picking name etc., unfortunately now we are stuck with it.

http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/linux/compose/

Sadly, the US-International keyboard on Windows does not implement a shortcut for the "micro" character (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560).

yup. Has been around since NT or maybe even longer..

It is having to open it every time you want to type the name of µSomething

At least for me, option-m is the µ key.

I've tried a couple of times to work with uBlock and uMatrix. I ended up going back to ABP each time. The 'block an ad on this page' feature is one of its best and most useful. That, and it doesn't go too far in blocking useful item on-page.

As I said in a similar thread on Reddit a few weeks ago, uBlock has some way to go before it can be considered user-friendly (at least, for the user who isn't familiar with the intricacies of how browsers work). I would love to be able to use it, though. ABP is an enormous resource hog on my system, but more to the point, pages render so slowly when it's switched on.

I've used it every day since starting a new job seven months ago and I've not noticed any issues with it.

Google helped to close the gap by making Chrome more bloated and much more unstable.

Your comment is almost worthwhile just for the irony in this.

Tabbed browsing basically hijacks window management away from the OS. Tabs are always implemented customly in-app (UI break) - and break the UX of window finding, switching, etc. (doubly annoying in a tiling WM, btw). That's all browsers.

> Personally, I hope Mozilla goes away and some other group comes along to fill the void [...]

> No, I much prefer that Mozilla just go away and die.

Yeah, they're just squatting on that cyberspace and not letting other people through.

Plus, FF is bundled/pre-installed everywhere nowadays; sickening! Your hatred is well placed.</s>

Why don't you just ignore them? Why do you want thousands of people to lose their job and why do you want to take away an open source software that's liked by millions of users?

Makes sense.

If you're going to try to split hairs over "kill them" versus "go away and die", you're going to have trouble convincing people.

It's a good thing that people don't need much convincing since Firefox is apparently dying anyway. Good riddance I say :)

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=441500

This affects all extensions.

Just so people are informed memory figures won't be too reliable as soon as you opened even only once the popup UI of an extension. (In all my benchmarks I of course avoided to do this).

n.b. Firefox results from experimental patch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8802509

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I reinstalled the plugin and the problems went away. So far looks good.

I see videos all fine on Youtube front-page, using out-of-the-box filter lists. That kind of issue was never reported for uBlock. I would need to know exactly what filter lists you were using, including custom filters.

uBlock relies on 3rd-party filter lists to do the job, specifically, out of the box:

    - EasyList
    - EasyPrivacy
    - Fanboy's Social Blocking List
    - Peter Lowe's Ad Servers
    - Malware domains

Bottom line, whatever filter lists you use in uBlock, you will get the same results with the same lists with ABP.

I'd also recommend that the defaults should have YouTube and Facebook (at least) working out of the box. Otherwise I think people will just uninstall the plugin, rather than trying to figure out how to fix it, which would be a shame.

EDIT: ( Chrome 39.0.2171.95 (64-bit), linux )

If you have things being blocked you don't want, either whitelist the element or find the block rule in your rule list.

YouTube and Facebook definitely both work 'out of the box' with the recommended lists.

Still, I don't think everyone out there who has ABP installed necessarily understands how to use it, or how it works. I have installed it for my wife, and for friends, (the kind of people who spend 90% of their time on a handful of popular sites) and if Facebook or YouTube was broken they wouldn't know why or what to do about it.

EDIT: Spelling

Thank you :)

Note: No automatic updates with this unofficial build.

I usually wouldn't notice a broken website with ABP, but with ublock I see something wrong at least once a week.

There is no filter which matches "api.google.com", so this can't be blocked, unless you have a custom filter which does that.

> also breaks a lot of sites that uses the google common javascript library CDN

uBlock uses third-party filter lists such as EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's, etc. It won't block more than what is spelled out in these lists. Un-select whatever filter lists which you think should not be selected.

As I have said countless times now, uBlock will block as much as ABP blocks when using same filter lists.

As always, if you think something is blocked which should not be (for example if ABP with the same lists has a different behavior), I need a URL, a test case in order to be able to infirm/confirm that the problem is with uBlock and not with the filter lists. On that ground, uBlock has been quite stable for a while now, I don't remember the last time something was blocked which should not have been blocked (or vice versa) as per filter lists.

I suggest removing the icon and just putting a plain old checkbox with a label that says "Whitelist Site".

I guess the whole "hover over it if you're confused" thing is pretty established by now, so I'd say your original assessment is probably the correct one. I just want us (the industry) to get better at this stuff! :)