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So I just installed the Classic Addons Archive, and it hangs PM on opening, for about 2 minutes. Switch away from the page, or try searching for an extension and again it hangs. Each time memory usage shot up by about 100 MB, and given that this is a puny 4 GB i5 laptop, I'm not impressed. Is this expected behavior, and is it because of low RAM on my laptop? Using the latest x64 PM build.

No it's not expected behavior, and it doesn't happen when I use CAA.

Does it still ocur in safe mode? Or in a new profile?

When you first install it, it has to build a database with all the provided extensions.
There are a lot of them, and it can take a while to complete the operation.

vannilla wrote: ↑

2019-07-09, 11:04

When you first install it, it has to build a database with all the provided extensions.
There are a lot of them, and it can take a while to complete the operation.

Not the first time..whenever I open it this happens. Memory usage drops back after I close it.

coffeebreak wrote: ↑

2019-07-09, 08:48

No it's not expected behavior, and it doesn't happen when I use CAA.

Does it still ocur in safe mode? Or in a new profile?

Found the culprit, it was CanvasBlocker, which anonymizes the canvas component to prevent fingerprinting. It can whitelist certain URLs, but I'm not sure how to do that for the caa: protocol handler that is used. Edit - just adding caa: to the whitelist worked.

moonbat wrote: ↑

2019-07-10, 13:20

Found the culprit, it was CanvasBlocker

You should be able to ditch that and use Pale Moon's inbuilt poisondata instead: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=22067&p=166762

Falna wrote: ↑

2019-07-11, 09:47

You should be able to ditch that and use Pale Moon's inbuilt poisondata instead: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=22067&p=166762

Turns out I'd already done that
Guess I can get rid of the extension then.