[HTTPS-Everywhere] 4.0dev11 slowing Firefox down

[Pavel Kazakov]

You could probably switch to stable until this issue is resolved (or
downgrade to an earlier version with updates turned off).

I'll see if I can find the underlying cause once I get some free time.

Regards,
Pavel

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Claudio Moretti <flyingstar16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone has suggestions/ideas?
> I'm still keeping it disabled, my problem is very much like Erik's...
>
> Claudio
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Erik Harris <erik at eharrishome.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/2/2013 4:37 PM, Pavel Kazakov wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting that this issue isn't universal. Slowdown appears to be
>>> happening on my home desktop machine with 4.0.development11, but it
>>
>>
>> It also doesn't seem to be temporally universal. I didn't see the
>> problem right after installing 4.0.dev11, and in fact, when I first
>> noticed it, it was about 5-10 minutes *after* opening Firefox for the
>> first time of the morning.  It ran at normal speed for a few minutes,
>> and then it suddenly looked like my Internet connection had died, or at
>> least gone to sub-dial-up speed.
>>
>>
>>> Opening up gmail for the first time takes an extra 5-7 seconds to
>>> load. The issue only happens during the first page load on a fresh
>>> Firefox instance; any subsequent loads for that webpage seems to work
>>> just fine.
>>
>>
>> In my case, it was much slower than an extra 5-7 seconds, and the only
>> solution seemed to be disabling HTTPS-Everywhere (from within the extension
>> - I didn't actually disable the extension within the Firefox addon window).
>> Reloading the page didn't help at all.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Erik Harris                               http://www.eHarrisHome.com
>>
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