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Stop memory leak from visiting one site

shivetya
shivetya
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When visiting the website cycletrader.com Firefox goes into an seemingly infinite memory grab. Memory usage increases constantly. While typing a message I watched usage go from 200m to 1.2g and it was till increasing until I shut firefox down.

IE used 100m and never went higher for same exact page.


Add ons are AdBlock and Flashot

When visiting the website cycletrader.com Firefox goes into an seemingly infinite memory grab. Memory usage increases constantly. While typing a message I watched usage go from 200m to 1.2g and it was till increasing until I shut firefox down. IE used 100m and never went higher for same exact page. Add ons are AdBlock and Flashot

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kobe
kobe
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I discovered something, at first firefox leaked and went from 250 mb of memory to 550 mb after 5 mins of loading the page. I saw it kept connecting to gigya.com so i thought it was a tracker. I installed Ghostery (checking all cookies etc. at setup) and the leak went in the tank, it is at 330 mb and the page has been loaded for 5 mins (with same tabs due to reset).

shivetya
shivetya Question owner
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I think it is AdBlock Plus that is causing an issue. If I visit Cycletrader with it disabled it does not cause a memory issue

Microrobot
Microrobot
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Try removing AdBlock Plus and download Simple AdBlock

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/simple-adblock/

This may fix the problem.

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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You may want to post in the Adblock Plus support forum.

http://adblockplus.org/forum/

Chances are that your problem is related to the filter subscription you are using in ABP. The support people over there might be able to help pinpoint the exact filter which is causing your problem, and offer an override.