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princiya / lightbeam-we

Web Extension version of the Mozilla Lightbeam add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam-3-0/
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Lightbeam freezes Firefox (consumes 100% CPU) #3

Open antistress opened 4 years ago

antistress commented 4 years ago

Hi, Great extension, thank you for bringing it back! One worry is that it usually freezes Firefox after some seconds. I've checked and then it consumes 100% of one of my CPU

If then I try to close the Lightbeam tab, it takes some (long) seconds before Firefox close the tab and finally returns the focus to the user. Thanks

NewtMa commented 3 years ago

I've encountered the same issue, except it's worse. My computer crashed after open the lightbeam tab

Betriebspruefung commented 3 years ago

First of all, I love this tool - many thanks for maintaining it! I can confirm this problem when Lightbeam has been active in the background for a couple of weeks and the number of websites/URLs is quite high (I cannot say how high exactly, probably a few hundred). When I try to use Lightbeam's "Reset Data" button the browser starts working and sooner or later crashes, unfortunately without the data being deleted. My workaround is to uninstall and then re-install the extension, which deletes all data and then Lightbeam works like a charm. But of course it would be much nicer being able to use the tool without having to re-install it every few weeks. The original Lightbeam extension did not have this problem.

princiya commented 3 years ago

Thanks for reporting. I will see if I can at least figure out what is causing this issue. But I cannot guarantee a timeframe.