However, when we tested this with Opera, RAM usage stayed the same, hovering between 152MB and 154MB. When we conducted our own tests, RAM consumption in Firefox dropped from roughly 630MB with the add-on enabled, to about 525MB when we disabled it. In Nethercote’s tests, RAM usage, with AdBlock Plus enabled, doubled in one case, and spiked even more drastically in another, though they were conducted using Firefox only. Hate ads, but love the Maxthon browser? Your dream has come true An iframe is an HTML document that allows multiple documents from different sources to appear on the same website that’s how you can have one ad for Huggies, and another ad for Six Flags on the same page.
According to Nicholas Nethercote, a developer for Mozilla, AdBlock Plus blocks ads by swapping each iframe on whatever website you’re using with another (roughly) 4MB document in order to keep that ad from appearing. Though add-ons like AdBlock Plus prevent a lot of ads from popping up, because of the way it goes about blocking those ads, your computer might be using more resources than it would be if you were to turn the add-on off. The reason why ad blocking browser add-ons and extensions are so popular, aside from the fact that people generally don’t want to see ads, is that fewer ads means there are more system resources for your Mac or PC to take advantage of, right? For AdBlock Plus, that may not exactly be the case, at least when it comes to using it with Firefox.
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