
(2) Firefox reacted much more smoothly and froze much less when loading pages with the lists disabled Removing the lists entirely (disabling them is not enough!) and leaving only the manual lists reduced this to 400KB, which is pretty much the average of all add-ons (1) ABP with subscription lists enabled accounted for 40% of Firefox's internal memory usage, roughly 40MB or about the same as Firefox's own code (not to be confused with the total RAM usage as reported by Task Manager and the like, which is around 200MB for me). EasyList and the other popular filter lists sadly turned out to be the culprits.

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How to Remove Ads, Wasted Page Space and Annoying ContentĪfter a few years of using ABP, I started searching for the source of the constant freezes and memory leaks I was having in my otherwise smoothly running Firefox. View topic - Adblock Plus slows Firefox site load time on warm restarts.Here are the two websites that mention Adblock Plus' 37,000 filters: Uninstalled McAfee Security Scan Plus which came "bundled" with Adobe Flash (I already have McAfee Securit圜enter).InPaint installed from Giveaway of the Day site.Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro license activated.Adobe Flash Player 11 for Internet Explorer.I have recently added the following programs to my PC: Would that be the culprit for adding an hour to my full Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scans? According to two websites, Adblock Plus employs 37,000 filters, so my guess is that having it in both Firefox and Internet Explorer makes it 74,000 filters. I'm wondering if it's because I recently installed Adblock Plus in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. On my PC, a full Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scan used to take 1 hour and 15 minutes, but it now takes 2 hours and 15 minutes.
