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Richard Bertrand August 14, 2013 13:38

High CPU usage - Firefox 23.0 + Ghostery 5.0.1

After installing the August, 2013, Windows 7 64 bit updates, Firefox 23.0 w/ Ghostery enabled increases CPU usage from about 2% to about 30%. No other add in does this. I assume some bug in Ghostery and/or the Win 7 updates aren't working together very well. Ghostery is v 5.0.1.

Will downgrade Ghostery to 2.9.6 which is suggested as the "latest" version on the Ghostery old version page suggested in Ghostery's support link.
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  • Mickel August 14, 2013 14:52
    I also have high CPU usage (about 100%) after upgrading to Ghostery v.5.0.1 on Firefox v.23.0 on an Ubuntu12.04 system. Inactivation of Ghostery fix the high load.
    I have several other addons like Adblock plus v.2.3.2 (ABP).

    If I disable ABP, then Ghostery and Firefox run with normal load.
    If I activate ABP AFTER Ghostery is activated, Ghostery and Firefox run with normal load. No restarts on Firefox between tests.
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    good solution! good solution! (undo)
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