On 4/21/2020 10:48 AM, NFN Smith wrote:
Hawker wrote:
Not sure why you cling to ABP and 2.49.1 (this one is even more
obsolete).
Clinging to ABP for me is because it took me several days to get it
working the way I wanted years ago. I had to find various lists, see
which ones worked better than others. Deal with broken websites (which
often required different lists). lots of research and configurations
work I don't particularly like to do and would rather use my time for
other things. I know I need to move on but don't want to invest the
time right now to do the same with uBlock
Something you might want to try....
When I was running AdBlock Plus, I had also done quite a bit of tuning,
but I when I moved to uBlock Origin, I didn't need to do an unreasonable
amount of work. uBlock can pretty much subscribe to the same lists that
ABP does. Yes, it does take a little bit of time getting to uBlock's
different UI, and it is a little more effort to dig into individual
blocking rules. However, with uBlock, I find that I spend less time
tinkering with the rules than I did with ABP, and ultimately, that's
time I can spend doing what I want to do.
What you might want to do is to create a new profile and install uBlock
in that -- add all the subscriptions you want (and for that matter, any
other extensions you consider to be essential), and see what things look
like. You might find that you get enough blocking immediately, without
having to spend much more time, at least not initially. It's likely that
a lot of the fine-tuning that you want is probably better done as tweaks
that are done in the context of of the moment.
If initial setups of uBlock do enough for you in the second profile,
then that will tell you if you can replace ABP in your primary profile
without an unreasonable amount of work.
Smith
thanx. That is great advise.
I was wondering, rather than a different profile, if I could just have
both installed and disable in the add on manager the one i am not using.
this way I can disable ABP, try uBlock and if I don't like it or it
needs more work to make me happy just revert back to disable uBlock and
ABP. This way I get to try it in my real profile, which is probably more
real world anyway.
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