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crdoconnor on Feb 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dell XPS 13 Review

I look at my RAM usage on ubuntu sometimes and I suspect that about 40-50% of the machine's total use is due to adblock running on firefox.

bluefinity on Feb 20, 2015 [–]

Give µBlock[1] a try, it seems to use quite a bit less memory. I've also found it to block more ads by default.

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

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