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Dan Simmons@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to Linux and Tech News@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish · 3 days ago

The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months

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The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months

www.techspot.com

Dan Simmons@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show to Linux and Tech News@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish · 3 days ago
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Starting with the next major release, Chromium will stop supporting Manifest V2 extensions. The change will affect users who have clung to uBlock Origin in Chrome, Edge,...
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    Because Firefox is still the same legendary memory hog it’s always been

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      If you keep 1000 tabs open, maybe. Otherwise, it’s not too bad.

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        More like a hundred.

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          Guess it also depends on your system. I pretty routinely keep several hundred firefox tabs open with no issues … but I’ve got 80GB of RAM to go around, so it’s fine.

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            I pretty routinely keep several hundred firefox tabs open…

            You savage! I feel like I’m living crazy when I have 10 open!

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            16GB. I put off upgrading for wayyy too long, and now look where I am

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      The Firefox memory hog issue is worse if you use Windows

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        …I do. 😔

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      Do you all just leave your browser open and running all the time?

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        When not gaming, yeah

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          Huh.

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