Ghostery causes firefox to freeze when parsing data uri that are very long. The issue is due to the horrible lookahead regular expression in the parseUri function used by ghostery (which probably isn't doing very much for the load times of other pages). A good alternative would be something like this, which does not use regular expressions: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/...
For a demo see: (WARNING! This will cause ghostery to freeze your browser for a few seconds)
http://allanwirth.com/junk/crashghost...
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Hi Allan,
Thanks for using Ghostery!
I have forwarded this on to our Firefox dev. We'll update this thread soon. -
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Hi Allan, thanks for reporting this issue.
This is a known oversight that will be resolved in the next release of Ghostery. If you wish to beta it, please drop me an email, I could be reached via felix@evidon.com -
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