Page load speed drop

[nikicat]

Hello, I've recently decided to switch to the Pass from KeepassXC and chosen Browserpass as a browser integration addon. Unfortunately, I've noticed a significant performance drop when loading sites (YouTube for example) after I've imported all my passwords to the pass database (~6.4K entries). When I disable Browserpass the page load time comes back to normal. When I run the Firefox profiler it shows that CPU time is spent inside the Browserpass extension.

General information

• Archlinux
• Firefox 122
• Information about the host app:
  • How did you install it? AUR
  • Browserpass host app version: 3.1.0
• Information about the browser extension:
  • How did you install it? AUR
  • Browserpass extension version as reported by your browser: 3.8.0

Exact steps to reproduce the problem

1. Open YouTube with browserpass enabled and a pretty big password database.
2. Observe a slower page loading speed.

What should happen?

In my opinion, Browserpass should not analyze the page until a user interacts with the extension. If this contradicts Browserpass' design at least I suppose that page load speed should not depend on the database size.

What happened instead?

I've observed a slower page load speed.

[maximbaz]

Thanks for sharing all the details!

My immediate impression is that it will likely be solved by this forgotten PR https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass-extension/pull/230 - @erayd shall we have a fresh look at that?

[nikicat]

@maximbaz Thank you for your rapid answer! I can confirm - when I installed the extension from #230 and enabled the "Hide badge counter" checkbox the performance drop disappeared. When I disable the checkbox the performance drop is back again.

[BastienDurel]

since a few days/weeks, I noticied the plugin-in often get stuck on loading login list :

I have to close/reopen the menu, often more than once, to get my list :/ Can this be related ?