[dennisw]

I use>>>
Ghostery
U Bock Origin
FlashBlock

I have to use them or Firefox gets really bogged down and memory& CPU use goes through the roof as seen on windows task manager.
I use similar blockers on Chrome.
I rarely use windoze Explorer or Edge

Ghostery is really a tracker blocker not an ad blocker

[Pelham]

NoScript is also good.

[catnipman]

“I have to use them or Firefox gets really bogged down and memory& CPU use goes through the roof as seen on windows task manager.”

indeed. but i found ghostery and flashblock broke too many websites, so i use adblock plus and set the flash plugin to always ask to be activated. i almost never have to activate flash except occasionally to view a vid clip. Even that does break a few websites that were stupid enough to be programmed almost entirely in flash. nonetheless,setting flash for manual activation made a gigantic improvement in firefox performance.

[catnipman]

btw, one of the greatest inventions, and one I’ve just started to use (and now use nearly all the time) is the “enter reader view” “open book” icon next to the reload current page icon on the firefox address bar. Most, but not all, web pages will work with “reader view”, which turns the primary article on the web page into simple black and white text with embedded pics and completely eliminates ALL the other crap on the web page except the article text. In other words, “Just the text, ma’am.”

[McGruff]

Ghostery, U Bock Origin, FlashBlock is a good list. I also use an application called HostMan to update the windows host file to block many sites before they even reach your PC.

http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman

[Captain Peter Blood]

I appreciate those ad blockers and such you posted for Firefox. I had been noticing for a long time my computer was running sluggish and I figured it was because of all the ads and video ad on’s on so many of these sites.

Right after I added these on the Firefox browser I could see immediately that things ran so much better. Thanks again.