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		mceachen on May 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Switch from Chrome to Firefox Presumably because an adblocker, like virus detection, consumes potentially non-trivial CPU, and may introduce race conditions of extensions applying deltas to a DOM which results in rendering and behavior bugs.

asdff on May 30, 2019 [–]

adblockers are just filters and aren't scanning your files like an antivirus, little cpu used I imagine.

mceachen on May 30, 2019 | [–]

uBlock origin's lede is "Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory." Ad blocking, pre-ublock, could take noticeable resources.

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