On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:26:53 -0400, blake murphy wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:08:48 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:
>
>> Long live Adblockplus! <g>
>
> i don't know what kind of overhead it incurs (firefox has been a little
> poky for me lately), but it's well worth it.

It actually speeds up browsing.

The only overhead is matching all fetched URL's against a (yes -
fairly large) list of regular expressions. The algorithm that do
that are extremely efficient and are a breeze for a modern processor
(2Ghz+). And there is practically no disk access.

The time saved by *nbot* fetching the link to the ads more than make
up for it. CPU cycles are extremely cheap compared to
network/internet throughput.

-sw