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FF Memory SURGES when accessing finance.yahoo.com/

peter.donlevy
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For the last couple of weeks, whenever I access the finance.yahoo.com/ website, my computer slows to a crawl. I run Activity Monitor to show me FF memory usage has surged to 6.5 GB! I cannot just 'quit' FF, have to force quit to regain the memory. No problems with any other website. I am running Mac OS 12.7, 8GB RAM, FF 102.0.1

Any help/suggestions appreciated.

Regards, Peter Donlevy

For the last couple of weeks, whenever I access the finance.yahoo.com/ website, my computer slows to a crawl. I run Activity Monitor to show me FF memory usage has surged to 6.5 GB! I cannot just 'quit' FF, have to force quit to regain the memory. No problems with any other website. I am running Mac OS 12.7, 8GB RAM, FF 102.0.1 Any help/suggestions appreciated. Regards, Peter Donlevy

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Problem does not occur in Troubleshoot Mode. (Thanks for suggestion, I was unaware of TS mode). Based on the number of adverts that appeared with TS turned on, I suspect the issue is linked to my use of Adblock Plus. Per, cor-el's suggestion, I will I try Ublock Origin for a smaller memory footprint. I will play around with this for a few days and report back.

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jonzn4SUSE
jonzn4SUSE
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8GB of ram... Just curious to know which mac are you on? You fail to provide detail on what exactly you have open when this issue occurs. When I visit the site, there is a bump in cpu usage, but it appears to be a lot going on with this site. You can see the windows and tabs I have open, but no issue. see screenshot

cor-el
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You can consider uBlock Origin as a replacement for your current Adblocker extension to see if that works better (lower memory footprint,less issues).

Start Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode to check if one of the extensions ("3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions) or if hardware acceleration or if userChrome.css/userContent.css is causing the problem.

  • switch to the Default System theme: "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes
  • do NOT click the "Refresh Firefox" button on the Troubleshoot Mode start window
zeroknight
zeroknight
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Does it still happen in Troubleshoot Mode?

peter.donlevy
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Valitud lahendus

Problem does not occur in Troubleshoot Mode. (Thanks for suggestion, I was unaware of TS mode). Based on the number of adverts that appeared with TS turned on, I suspect the issue is linked to my use of Adblock Plus. Per, cor-el's suggestion, I will I try Ublock Origin for a smaller memory footprint. I will play around with this for a few days and report back.

peter.donlevy
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Problem has not re-occurred since replacing Adblock Plus with Ublock Origin.