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> Firefox does also have a native ad-blocker

I don't think it has one natively. Which one do you mean? Or are you referring to tracking protection (private mode only, but available in Fx 49 also in "normal" mode iirc)

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Yeah, I'm referring to Tracking Protection. It's not supposed to be an ad-blocker, but with almost all ads using tracking code, you rarely encounter ads when it's enabled. It's probably even better for battery life than just an ad-blocker, as a lot of webpages also execute tracking code which isn't bound to ads.

And you could always enable it in normal browsing by setting "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled" in about:config to true...

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