Adblock Plus using CPU-power on whitelisted sites?

Hallson · Post by **Hallson** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:42 am

Peng wrote: That's what's supposed to happen. The presence of an .autoreg file (with any contents, I assume) just makes it regenerate compreg.dat automatically. Deleting it forces it to be regenerated right now no matter what.

I'm not sure I saw any .autoreg file in the end.
But I did delete the compreg.dat file, and I did copy the nsTestPolicy.js to the components directory.

The results are the same though.
Almost 30 seconds without Adblock running, and almost 2 minutes with Adblock running (with the newzbin-page whitelisted).

Now I just hope I did it right ! (I think I did!)

Regards
Hallson

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:59 am

Well, no excuse for Adblock Plus then

Hallson · Post by **Hallson** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:46 am

Wladimir Palant wrote:Well, no excuse for Adblock Plus then

Oh f... (imagine all the curse-words in the world here) - My previous message got off VERY unclear!

What I meant was:
when i tried the thing with the .js file as you suggested Wladimir (with adblock disabled) the problem disappeared, meaning the page would load in 30 seconds.
Once i enabled adblock, the page got slow again (i removed the .js file, after enabling adblock again).

If it's okay, maybe I should just private-message you Wladimir, with some login-info to the mentioned problematic page, so you could see it for yourself.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:09 am

I think I understood correctly - if this component doesn't slow you down, then it is really the overhead introduced by Adblock Plus.

A link to this page would be nice, yes.

Hallson- · Post by **Hallson-** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:42 am

Okay, according to your own tests of my link Wladimir, it seems the problem must be entirely on my end.
Furthermore I just tested it on a third (fast!) computer, and the difference is NOWHERE near as pronounced as on my older Celeron computer.

Now I just wonder why Adblock somehow can cause a page to load 3-4 tmes slower on my slow computer. I even tested it on portable versions of Firefox (to be sure I tested it on a CLEAN installation).
But since the problem seems to be mainly related to that computer alone, I guess there is not much I can ask for here anymore

Thx for the testing and listening!

Regards
Hallson