Ghostery made memory use soar and FF crash

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I've had to remove ghostery from Firefox bc suddenly it seemed to make the memory usage soar until it crashed. I tried many solutions but Mozilla support said error had to do with Ghostery and recommended disabling it. Since I've removed G the browser has been running fine and the memory usage is stable, not soaring for no reason. Can you guys fix this bug so I can continue to use G? Thanks

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M Davis August 15, 2013 04:27

I'm having the same issue, seems to be a memory leak. I had FF taking up 2GB of memory earlier, with it rising, with no flash tabs open or anything. When I disabled Ghostery and restarted browser, things went back to normal.

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I'm having the same issue, seems to be a memory leak. I had FF taking up 2GB of memory earlier, with it rising, with no flash tabs open or anything. When I disabled Ghostery and restarted browser, things went back to normal.

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Felix Shnir August 15, 2013 04:45

Hi everyone thanks for waiting. We've just uploaded 5.0.2beta to AMO which is available here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...

This fixes the ABP and other content blocker conflicts with Ghostery, so if you're interested in testing 5.0 release, please upgrade. We'll notify you when the final 5.0 is going to be out here as well.

Note: a browser restart may be needed after the installation.

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Hi everyone thanks for waiting. We've just uploaded 5.0.2beta to AMO which is available here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... This fixes the ABP and other content blocker conflicts with Ghostery, so if you're interested in testing 5.0 release, please upgrade. We'll notify you when the final 5.0 is going to be out here as well. Note: a browser restart may be needed after the installation.

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Ane August 15, 2013 05:02

I think that link is truncated.

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I think that link is truncated.

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Felix Shnir August 15, 2013 05:30

Yeap, sorry for that. Heres the correct link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...

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Yeap, sorry for that. Heres the correct link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/versions/?page=1#version-2.9.6

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Chief Gecko August 15, 2013 05:37

Links goes to 2.9.6?

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Links goes to 2.9.6?

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Chief Gecko August 15, 2013 05:39

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/versions/5.0.2beta

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Felix Shnir August 15, 2013 05:41

Hehe, thanks, copy paste failed me =)

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Hehe, thanks, copy paste failed me =)

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Chief Gecko August 15, 2013 05:48

Behaving better than 5.0.1. Still not quite right. FF is using constant 15-25% CPU on MBP 2.4Ghz.

Usually FF idles <1%

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Behaving better than 5.0.1. Still not quite right. FF is using constant 15-25% CPU on MBP 2.4Ghz. Usually FF idles <1%

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Chief Gecko August 15, 2013 05:58

I am filled with chagrin from bad science. Installed 5.0.2beta and enabled a couple of other addons at the same time. Disabled back to baseline addons + Ghostery and FF is idling @ 1%'ish. Woohoo!

CG...

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I am filled with chagrin from bad science. Installed 5.0.2beta and enabled a couple of other addons at the same time. Disabled back to baseline addons + Ghostery and FF is idling @ 1%'ish. Woohoo! CG...

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Thomas Shuduppayouface Maxwell August 17, 2013 03:49

I have had this problem for a week, and it seems to be corrected with v. 5.0.3, as well as a new version of Firefox v. 23.0.1

CPU usage was nearing 100% but is now back below 10%

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I have had this problem for a week, and it seems to be corrected with v. 5.0.3, as well as a new version of Firefox v. 23.0.1 CPU usage was nearing 100% but is now back below 10% Thanks!

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Schnäppchen August 20, 2013 20:33

G 5.0.3, Firefox v. 23.0.1 (Win)
Browser was slow and often when redirects occured browser didn't react any more and allocated more and more memory.
After switching back to Ghostery 2.9.6 everything is fine.

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G 5.0.3, Firefox v. 23.0.1 (Win) Browser was slow and often when redirects occured browser didn't react any more and allocated more and more memory. After switching back to Ghostery 2.9.6 everything is fine.

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Schnäppchen September 03, 2013 06:32

G 5.0.4 is somewhat better than ver. 9.0.3. Redirect problem seems solved and a little bit faster. Yet still significant slower than ver 2.9.6.

For me Ghostery is now a Lame Duck!

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G 5.0.4 is somewhat better than ver. 9.0.3. Redirect problem seems solved and a little bit faster. Yet still significant slower than ver 2.9.6. For me Ghostery is now a Lame Duck!

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