Why does this website causes memory to spike to 12GB in a few seconds?
Memory spikes to 12GB in a few seconds when attempting to access this website on 19 Apr 2018, before 11:00am CDT:
https://www.theguardian.com/us
The page never loads, and I have to use the task manager to kill FF. At that same time, Chrome handled it with no problems.
Sometime after 11:00am, something changed, and the page loaded immediately, with no huge memory consumption.
Is there some way to track or log enough information to pinpoint the problem?
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I opened the link but saw no problem. It might have been a problem with the website that was repaired.
After 11am I saw it load correctly as well. But what sort of website problem would cause FF to jump from 500mb to 12gb in a few seconds. There should be some sort of protection built in to FF to prevent this.
This isn't the first time I've seen this happen. Every two or three weeks I have to kill FF with task manager.
Is that with the same website or others as well? It does sound like a website issue.
I'm afraid I can't say one way or the other. As I said, it doesn't happen that often--it may be weeks till the next occurrence, and once it happens FF is essentially dead. I don't think it's the website per se, because I can access the website in chrome without a problem at the same time FF is choking.
But to my original question, is there some kind of logging I can enable so that the next time it happens, there might be a way to track the problem?
I called for more help.
I noticed there were no players on the page I was. Sometimes the player can cause that issue.
Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page {web Link} (There’s a lot of good stuff here) and search for a good ad / pop-up blocker.