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christ1 August 13, 2013 21:54

Ghostery 5.0.1

It seems Ghostery 5.0.1 is available now on the website. I installed it for FF23 on Linux (openSuse 12.3). FF was constantly running at about 100% CPU. This isn't it yet.
Reverted to Ghostery 2.9.6, and everything is back to normal.
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  • N2JC August 13, 2013 22:16
    Same here. I have four systems with Firefox and Ghostery. One Windows 7 (which had Ghostery 5 for a few days), two Win XP and one with Ubuntu (those had 2.9.6 until today). On all four systems, after Ghostery updated to 5.0.1, Firefox now takes up one full core of CPU (25% on quad core, 50% on dual core). I've disabled Ghostery for now, I don't see any way to revert back to 2.9.6.
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    Felix Shnir August 14, 2013 00:59
    Hi guys, could you please try Ghostery on a fresh profile and let us know the results: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles? Also, a bit more on the computer specs: RAM, OS, how fast your CPU is?
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  • N2JC August 14, 2013 02:03
    It appears to be conflicting with Adblock Plus. I created a completely new user on my Ubuntu system. When it was just Ghostery it was fine. Then I installed Adblock Plus, and it shoots up to 100% CPU. This is on the Firefox start page where nothing is being blocked.

    On the trackers page I have Ghostery configured to block everything but ads and widgets, and on the cookies page it blocks everything.
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  • tetchypoo August 14, 2013 02:33
    I'm going to be that guy and report in that I had the same issue, downgrading to 2.96 resolved it for me. I disabled Adblock Plus and Ghostery was running solo and still running at 100%. It also seemed to have a memory leak, as I was on 2 webpages (not RAM intensive) and Firefox was at 4GB and climbing after an hour of use.

    I say I'm "that guy" because I'm running 10.9 DP5, so I expect everything terrible to happen to me, but it's on an early 2013 2.7GHz rMBP with 16GB of RAM. I was beachballing with no swap and at 100%. I was actually impressed...it was the first time this guy really choked!

    If you need any testing done, I have a few other machines I can toy around with running 10.8.4 and 10.6.8.

    Thanks for the quick responses!

    Edit:

    Created a new profile, ran 3.0.1, no issues. Per the other user, I installed Adblock Plus and lo and behold, it went out of control again. Removed Adblock and it went back to normal.

    2.9.6 is still running fine in my default profile.
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