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Mozilla Fixed a 14-Year-Old Bug In Firefox, Now Adblock Plus Uses Less Memory

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla launched Firefox 41 yesterday. Today, Adblock Plus confirmed the update "massively improves" the memory usage of its Firefox add-on. This particular memory issue was brought up in May 2014 by Mozilla and by Adblock Plus. But one of the bugs that contributed to the problem was actually first reported on Bugzilla in April 2001 (bug 77999).

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  1. Nice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can not only block the Kardashians but also Donald Trump and Taylor Swift.

    1. Re:Nice! by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Funny

      I’m sorry, Taylor Swift is good and all, but Beyonce had one of the best presidencies of all time!

  2. Another open source bug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    fixed in a timely fashion I see.

  3. Analogy of my Relationship with Firefox by The+Faywood+Assassin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using Firefox has become like that relationship that used to be perfect and then out of nowhere your partner starts cheating on you and each time swears its going to be the last time.

    And you keep falling for it.

    --

    "I'm a humble person really,

    I'm actually much greater than I think I am"

  4. Re:Ublock = inferior & inefficient vs. hosts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah. An AdBlock thread without APK is like a outhouse without the stink.

  5. Re:Ublock = inferior & inefficient vs. hosts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    On behalf of all other AC's I apologize for this piece of unintelligible tripe.
    I realize we do not have a very good reputation, but this is below even our standards. And that includes goatse, GNAA and even DICE editing standards.

    Again, on behalf of all AC's, our sincerest apologies.

  6. Re:Been there/done that (ALL that) by MyAlternateID · · Score: 4, Funny

    Get on topic. Do something useful like apk has in his program. You can't prove his points on hosts wrong either. I suppose I for one expect too much from you slashdot trolls. You don't possess the skills to do either one, so go away troll, shoo. I think it's hilarious how apk makes you fools go nuts but you never ever prove him validly technically wrong. Not ever.

    That's the amazing thing about APK and his bootlicking myrmidons (like you). You just can't actually respond to what someone is saying. You read what they said, but you lack the argumentation skill to actually rebut it. Being childish, that causes you to feel like you really don't like that person. Unable to meaingfully respond and filled with your vitriol, all you can do is hand-wave, call names, and change the subject.

    If (for some strange reason) I wanted to, I could do that, too. What I couldn't do is act that way, and then convince myself that I am right and the other guy is a big dummy. That is a true masterwork of functional self-deception.