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An efficient blocker for Chromium-based browsers. Fast and lean.
Chromium on Linux 64-bit
Opera 22 on Windows 7 32-bit
The screenshots above were taken after visiting links in reference benchmark plus a bit of random browsing. All blockers were active at the same time, thus they had to deal with exactly the same workload. Before the screenshots were taken, I left the browser idle for many minutes so as to let the browser's garbage collector kicks in. Also, after a while idling, it's good to open the dev console for each extension and force a garbage collection cycle by clicking a couple of times the trashcan icon in the Timeline tab (this caused a ~15MB drop for µBlock and Adguard in Opera) as garbage collectors sometimes work in a very lazy way, so I did this for each extension.
From the Chrome store, or manually.
To benefit from the higher efficiency, it is of course not advised to use an inefficient blocker at the same time. µBlock will do as well or better than the popular blockers out there.
I think it is pretty obvious, except for this I suppose:
The big power button is to disable/enable µBlock for the specific hostname which can be extracted from the URL address of the current page. (It applies to the current web site only, it is not a global power button.) The state of the power switch for a specific site will be remembered.
µBlock is born out of HTTP Switchboard. All the niceties of HTTPSB have been removed, and what is left is a straightforward blocker which support EasyList and the likes, and also support host files. Cosmetic filters ("element hiding") are supported.
There is nothing more to it. But it does what popular blockers out there do, at a fraction of CPU and memory usage for the same blocking power.
Free. Open source. No donations sought. For users by users.
Without the preset lists of filters, this extension is nothing. So if ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which were made available to use by all for free.