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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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