Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs
I made a host filtering proxy with node a while ago to solve exactly this problem. <a href="https://github.com/thibauts/node-host-filtering-proxy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thibauts/node-host-filtering-proxy</a><p>Edge cases are not completely ironed out but if people want to help perfect it I'll very happily accept PRs !