EFForg/privacybadgerfirefox-legacy

Privacy Badger for Firefox consuming 100% CPU

pde opened this issue · 7 comments

pde commented

In my regular Firefox profile, I'm seeing a situation where Firefox is unresponsive and consuming 100% CPU. Disabling Privacy Badger drops this to 15-20% CPU (which is still pretty bad, but Privacy Badger is clearly exacerbating whatever performance issue this profile is experiencing).

pde commented

I was able to reproduce this for one disable / reenable cycle with PB. But not two. Will try to catch my browser doing this again...

cooperq commented

Peter are you using the latest version of pb from AMO or EFF (just to make sure you aren't using a strange dev copy or something 😄 )

Could you run a cpu profile if this happens again to see if we can figure out what is happening?

jaredhirsch commented

@pde Did you have any other addons installed? It's good to disable all other addons when debugging CPU problems.

If you're still seeing this issue, there's a Firefox debugging addon that lets you easily share performance data for cases like this. You can download the addon and learn about it here.

w3333 commented

I'm seeing the same or a similar problem with privacy badger. When I open the filter settings, Firefox hogs the CPU. Closing the settings tab immediately resolves this. Can be reproduced anytime on my machine. There seem to be no issues during normal operation with PB.

cooperq commented

Hi, we have now switched to https://github.com/eff.org/privacybadger as the codebase for both firefox and chrome as of the next version of privacy badger. If you are still having this issue as of the next update please re post your issue there.

mirh commented

https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger
Working link :*

Any comment on when it's rolling out?

cooperq commented

oops! Thanks for that. Should be rolling out on tuesday.

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