Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs

Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by gorhill on Saturday December 27, 2014 @12:27PM (#8803191)

One thing I would like to point out, is that there is a bug currently in Chromium 39 which causes a new memory leak each time the popup UI of an extension is opened:

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).

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by curiously on Saturday December 27, 2014 @03:06PM (#8803751)

does this happen only when you click the ublock and it opens a popup window or with any extension popup UI?

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by gorhill on Saturday December 27, 2014 @05:53PM (#8804273)

Any extension popup UI, which appears when you click an extension icon. The more complicated the HTML document in the popup, the larger the leak.

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Re:Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome ar... by curiously on Saturday December 27, 2014 @06:52PM (#8804457)

what about extensions without a popup UI?

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