Opened on 06/07/2014 at 09:17:28 PM
Closed on 07/15/2014 at 12:25:18 PM
#655 closed defect (worksforme)
Facebook freezes when opened on firefox
| Reported by: | Dr_Osama | Assignee: | |
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| Priority: | Unknown | Milestone: | |
| Module: | Adblock-Plus-for-Firefox | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | mapx, arthur, manvel@adblockplus.org, trev | Blocked By: | |
| Blocking: | Platform: | Firefox | |
| Ready: | no | Confidential: | no |
| Tester: | Verified working: | no | |
| Review URL(s): | |||
Description
Environment
Windows 7 SP1, Firefox 29.0.1,AdBlocker 2.6.3, Filter list (Easylist)
How to reproduce
- open firefox
- open facebook.com
Observed behaviour
facebook page freezes for about 2 minutes when just opened then works just fine then freezes for another 2 minutes and so on.
When I disabled AdBlocker, it worked just fine.
Expected behaviour
It should block the ads without slowing the page!
Attachments (1)
Change History (15)
Changed on 06/07/2014 at 09:18:07 PM by Dr_Osama
comment:1 Changed on 06/08/2014 at 07:28:09 AM by mapx
- Cc mapx added
1.Are you using some custom filters for FB ?
2.What other addons are installed ? Did you try disabling all other addons and keep only ABP (and re-test) ?
3.Did you clear your cache (+cookies) ?
4.Did you scan your system for adware / malware ?
use: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware.shtml
5.Try a new profile:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows
install ABP, re-test
comment:2 Changed on 06/12/2014 at 03:21:22 PM by arthur
This one might be related: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23499
comment:3 Changed on 06/13/2014 at 01:30:04 PM by John Percival
I too have this problem. As requested above, I created a new profile, installed ABP. Went to FB - no problems. Turned on bookmarks bar - opened new tab, went to FB - freezes.
comment:4 follow-up: ↓ 7 Changed on 06/13/2014 at 01:32:13 PM by mapx
Are you using the default firefox theme ?
comment:5 Changed on 06/13/2014 at 03:17:43 PM by mapx
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=100978#p100978
firefox freezing again even using the default theme
comment:6 Changed on 06/13/2014 at 03:18:35 PM by mapx
- Cc arthur added
comment:8 Changed on 06/18/2014 at 09:48:14 AM by arthur
Someone reported that if you turn on the Facebook chat, it's working: http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?p=57830#p57830
Can you verify that? I still cannot reproduce it.
comment:9 Changed on 06/18/2014 at 09:50:36 AM by mapx
another user (it's the same user TCCB) reported that by hiding the bookmarks bar it's working too
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=101165#p101165
comment:10 Changed on 06/18/2014 at 09:53:41 AM by mapx
galacticninja also reported:
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=101171#p101171
"Warning: Unresponsive script
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yp/r/21bfDHaSBi6.js:68 "
comment:11 Changed on 06/18/2014 at 12:09:17 PM by arthur
He actually meant turning the chat on, not off: http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?p=57830#p57830
comment:12 Changed on 06/18/2014 at 05:37:11 PM by saroyanm
- Cc manvel@adblockplus.org added
comment:13 Changed on 07/09/2014 at 12:38:11 PM by philll
- Platform set to Firefox
comment:14 Changed on 07/15/2014 at 12:25:18 PM by trev
- Cc trev added
- Resolution set to worksforme
- Status changed from new to closed
Judging by the forum discussion, this is clearly an issue with the EasyList filters or the scripts running on facebook.com or both - but certainly not an Adblock Plus bug. The suspicion is that EasyList blocked something that made a script on facebook.com go into an endless loop. Resolving as worksforme given that the issue apparently went away by itself, most likely due to a Facebook update.
Screenshot of the page while freezing