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Updated Firefox version: benchmarking memory footprint of the early preview (markdown)

gorhill 2014-12-22 05:38:59 -08:00
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Ok so here is a test.
#### Setup
1. Ensure click-to-play (or whatever equivalent) is enabled before launching the benchmark
1. Select the following filter lists in the benchmarked blocker:
- EasyList
- Peter Lowe's Ad server list
- EasyPrivacy
- Fanboy's Social Blocking List
- Malware domain lists
- ABP-specifics: _"Acceptable ads"_ disabled
- uBlock-specifics: uBlock's filters enabled (+80 filters), extra malware domains (+1,459 filters)
#### Steps
1. Ensure click-to-play (or whatever equivalent) is enabled before launching the benchmark
1. Have only the "new tab" opened
1. Quit Firefox
1. Launch Firefox
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#### Notes
Tested on Firefox 34 64-bit and Chromium 39 64-bit on Linux Mint. No other extensions were present. The filter lists for ABP and uBlock:
- EasyList
- Peter Lowe's Ad server list
- EasyPrivacy
- Fanboy's Social Blocking List
- Malware domain lists
- ABP-specifics: _"Acceptable ads"_ disabled
- uBlock-specifics: uBlock's filters enabled (+80 filters), extra malware domains (+1,459 filters)
Click-to-play **enabled** or equivalent in both browsers.
Tested on Firefox 34 64-bit and Chromium 39 64-bit on Linux Mint. No other extensions were present.
I chose the _"Explicit Allocations"_ figure because as per Firefox, it is "the single best number to focus on" with regard to memory usage.