RequestPolicy/requestpolicy — Issue #127: Highly cross-site linked websites causes 100% cpu usage and memory allocation fluctuations
Author: jsamuel
Created: 2011-12-22 18:54:29+00:00
State: open
Labels: extension

imported trac ticket
created: 2010-07-21 11:13:14
reporter: gonefish

The performance of RequestPolicy in my browser can become very poor on certain sites that rely on cross-site linking. An especially poor one is [http://motls.blogspot.com/]. Firefox will run cause cpu to run 100% continously, and memory allocation will fluctuate between 50MB-100MB. I've tried older version of RequestPolicy all the way back to 0.5.09 (oldest compatible with Firefox) and same result. The example url has as far back as I know always cause serious performance problems since I've started using RequestPolicy.

If this is a general problem, I hope the example site can be used for locating/tuning the performance problems.

'''Setup'''
OS: Windows 7 32-bit
Firefox: 3.6.6
Firefox-addons: Only RequestPolicy (and Flash disabled)