I like how 10 years passes between comment 4 and 6 in Bugzilla: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77999#c4" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77999#c4</a>
ABP memory usage in Chrome made me switch to router-level ad blocking. Added bonus: it works on mobile too. I have weird page renderings sometimes, and whitelisting a legit site is a pain, but it's overall a huge value to off-load the blocking to the router.
July discussion: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809384" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9809384</a>
This amused me - about twenty minutes ago I'd noticed Firefox using <i>way</i> less memory that it usually does, but thought nothing more of it.<p>Jung would have something to say about synchronicity, I'm sure.
I honestly use use Ghostery which blocks all trackers. It prevents a lot of ads from loading/working because they often have to redirect to serve me the right one (which Ghostry prevents). Waaay less of a resource suck.
I really prefer Ghostery. Gives a much better analysis of what's being blocked, with fine grain controls, and much nicer UI.<p>I haven't measured the memory consumption, but I havent had any noticeable issues so far.