[Firefox] Add Bluhell Firewall to Benchmarks

[pwr22]

I would be very interested in seeing some benchmarks that include this plug-in and maybe some real world examples of where one blocks more effectively than the other. I would except uBlock to do better since BHF has very naive blocking rules in comparison

[gorhill]

I would like to find out too because I've always been skeptical of performance gain of using gigantic regular expressions over well laid out dictionary. However I have been benchmarking using Chromium mostly, using home-made tools, so I do not have insights at this time on how to run automated benchmark on Firefox.

[my-password-is-password]

Is this any good?

http://www.areweprivateyet.com/

its on github

https://github.com/ghostery/areweprivateyet

[gorhill]

Err I understood OP was interested in memory/CPU benchmark. Re-reading again I see it's about how much stuff BluHell blocks? If so that is easy to answer:

just seven hard-coded blocking rules covering about 8400 .com and .net domains, these were auto-generated from Easylist [source]

So BluHell hard-code part of EasyList, so it can't block more. uBlock you choose whatever you want, from zero filter to above 100,000. Not worth running a benchmark for that, BluHell's description says all.

[pwr22]

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant both Peter

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On 20 Jan 2015 20:42, "Raymond Hill" <notifications@github.com> wrote: Err I understood OP was interested in memory/CPU benchmark. Re-reading again I see it's about how much stuff BluHell blocks? If so that is easy to answer: just seven hard-coded blocking rules covering about 8400 .com and .net domains, these were auto-generated from Easylist So BluHell hard-code part of EasyList, so it can't block more. uBlock you choose whatever you want, from zero filter to above 100,000. Not worth running a benchmark for that, BluHell's description says all. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub <gorhill/uBlock#560 (comment)>.

[pwr22]

I agree uBlock will block a lot more, I was more interested if BHF is capable of blocking the worst stuff etc Peter

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On 20 Jan 2015 20:44, "Peter Roberts" <me@peter-r.co.uk> wrote: > Sorry if I wasn't clear, I meant both > > Peter > On 20 Jan 2015 20:42, "Raymond Hill" <notifications@github.com> wrote: > Err I understood OP was interested in memory/CPU benchmark. Re-reading > again I see it's about how much stuff BluHell blocks? If so that is easy to > answer: > > just seven hard-coded blocking rules covering about 8400 .com and .net > domains, these were auto-generated from Easylist > > So BluHell hard-code part of EasyList, so it can't block more. uBlock you > choose whatever you want, from zero filter to above 100,000. Not worth > running a benchmark for that, BluHell's description says all. > > — > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub > <gorhill/uBlock#560 (comment)>. >

[gorhill]

You will have to try it and decide for yourself, I can't decide for you. And thinking of it, I can't possibly take all request to benchmark everything under the sun, or I might just as well stop coding. However I undertook this project because I like coding. So I am just going to close this. Maybe BluHell author will accept to benchmark for you if you ask him.

[pwr22]

I'll do some informal testing again (I did it before when the FF port first appeared), I was just hoping you had some automated method. I'll chime back in if I manage to find a way of automating FF tests for you