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hollerith on May 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage

>That was true in the late 90s, but these days a browser is actually a fully-fledged programming environment

Yes, I know, and I don't like it.

It makes it more complicated and unreliable to use the web to view text and images.

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