Tagged webkit
3 write-ups.
No Add-on Can Block Ads in This Browser
WebKit grants an extension webRequestBlocking without honouring it, and accepts declarativeNetRequest rulesets without applying them. uBO Lite with EasyList enabled blocked 0 of 5 tracker probes, while a content rule list the browser compiled itself blocked the same probe every run.
Measuring the Wrong Process for Eight Months
My benchmark credited each tab with one process and counted every other process as nothing. Re-measured against every process the browser actually owns, the light-pages result inverts: the ladder I published as 2.63x better than doing nothing is 1.35x worse.
What a Hibernated Browser Tab Actually Costs
My simulated tab scheduler priced a hibernated tab at 32 KB; real WebKit charges 39 MB. It claimed 7.9–11.5x less memory than an unmanaged browser and delivered 1.4–2.6x. That one number, wrong by three orders of magnitude, explains the entire gap.