Issues with V-K on Firefox

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by lnx64

I don't have Windows, and use Linux, but I can certainly see the same issue, though I don't have visible slowdown.

http://i.imgur.com/nWWN6Xw.png

It appears to be the ads, it keeps refreshing the page every few seconds, pulling more data. If I click and hold on the back button, it's flooded with Videokarma, even though I only went to the home page, and stayed there, not following any trail.

With that, the issue is entirely with rogue advertisements (which I'm sorry, is why I use an adblocker. I simply don't trust these ad providers anymore).

Ditto on my Linux Mint machine(s) at home - I use ABP plugin for FF, and don't see the ads. ABP plugin uses some 45MB or more in FF under WIN10, so I don't use it here.

BTW, what distro?

I think it's a script that reloads the ads, and it eats memory, somewhat cumulatively, nibbling along. I remember the old YouTube memory leak from the days of Windows XP - that got fixed by YouTube somehow. Everyone thought it was their Windows computer or IE, but CNET did some studying and found a script YT was using had gone rogue.

If not for being forced to use Outlook, I'd be using Linux here. Outlook tasking doesn't work with Linux and Wine.