[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 :)