Hawker wrote:
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.
Yes that is possible. I would not advise keeping them both enabled but even
this should work. Don't ask about performance and memory use in this case
(both enabled) :) I liked the old ABP ui more but the new one is not much
different from uBlock thanks to the wonders of web extensions where every
add-on needs to do its own gui.
FRG
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