Monday, April 5, 2010

The main problem with browsers other than Firefox

Firefox was using a ton of RAM earlier, mostly because I had 45 or so tabs open.  Being lazy, instead of closing some, I closed Firefox.  Opened Task Manager, waited for it to relinquish the RAM and virtual memory it was using, and then started SRWare Iron.

The entire reason I was doing this was because I wanted to watch an old AVGN episode (the Magnavox Odyssey episode) on GameTrailers.  It was playing back in Firefox, but it was choppy due to Fx's RAM usage.

So I open up Iron, load up the ScrewAttack section on GameTrailers, open up the video page, and what's this?  An ad before my video?

I double-checked.  Reloading (even with cache-clearing reloads) didn't make it not show the ad.  The ad was unskippable (unlike the old GameTrailers, where you could just click the right end of the seekbar to get to what you actually loaded up the fucking page for).  The AdBlock extension for Chromium was loaded, but apparently its object subrequest blocking only works on YouTube or some shit like that.

Closed Iron, opened Firefox back up.

Went through the tabs (19 of them were various images on Sankaku Channel) and eventually got the number of tabs down to 20.  Went back to GameTrailers and loaded up the video.  No ad, watched the video, was happy.

This is the precise problem with non-Firefox browsers: lack of proper ad blocking and script blocking.  I see so many people posting on various websites complaining of ads messing with the site and I just sit there and say to myself "some moron's not using AdBlock Plus".

Oh and by the way, the official initialism for Firefox is fx, not ff.

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