[Closed] High Rss usage after 4+ hours (Firefox)

[Lysander_Works]

I've been having this bug a lot lately, and am not sure what causes it.
Particularly after a long enough time, (across multiple systems even), my PC fans suddenly go full power, all cores get near 60 celcius, and CPU usage for my web browser reaches about 80% (of a 4 core machine) ~ medium specs. 40% memory usage too. All of which is allocated to the web browser directly. For last 2 months I've devoted this browser exclusively to this website [SH, Royal Road, and Youtube (with youtube cookies blocked and tabs closed most often)].

I think this could be a Browser related issue, not a Scribblehub related issue, however, I'd still have to ask some others if they face the same problems (in other browsers). Technical specifications of the browser is Librewolf (a forked version of Firefox), come with adblock, but I shut it off entirely 1 month ago, assuming it was the source of the problem (problem still persists). If I close everything down, clear the cookies/cache, then go back online with a new browser session (ensuring it was fully closed in task manager), the issue is no longer there, for about 2-4 hours at least.

Is anyone else having this problem? At the absolute least, I want to confirm if it is the browser, or if some element of the webnovel sites could be triggering something to go wrong (unintentionally)...

My main system has 8 GB of RAM and Core I3 7100U, Windows 10 [Bloat Removed and Telemetry Turned off]. Recent virus scans have been negative.

 

[greyblob]

check ur extensions

 

[Alski]

Using Google on 3 different devices and I've had zero issue leaving SH tabs open for days at a time.

 

[Lysander_Works]

check ur extensions

I only have one extension (the one the browser comes with). Already tried turning it off entirely. No difference.

 

[Lysander_Works]

What's odd is that 2-4 hours is generally required to pass before this happens, else there won't be an issue.

 

[melchi]

It sounds like you have a coin-miner virus or malware.

I would say check windows security and see if there are any excluded folders for virus scan.

 

[Lysander_Works]

It sounds like you have a coin-miner virus or malware.

I would say check windows security and see if there are any excluded folders for virus scan.

I usually include all system folders for a virus scan, including rootkit scans. Relying on Malwarebytes software (because it is free and non-invasive). If you know of anything better (that doesn't cost me money), I'd give it a try, scanning for mining malware.

 

[melchi]

I usually include all system folders for a virus scan, including rootkit scans. Relying on Malwarebytes software (because it is free and non-invasive). If you know of anything better (that doesn't cost me money), I'd give it a try, scanning for mining malware.

I'm not an expert, but checking windows security is really the best way I know of. Sometimes sketchy stuff likes to hide in appdata folder (hidden by default)

 

[Lysander_Works]

I'm not an expert, but checking windows security is really the best way I know of. Sometimes sketchy stuff likes to hide in appdata folder (hidden by default)

Hm, I check all those areas first. Next time it happens though I'll scan those sections and the browser while it's up and running, since it's not something I've done before (usually close everything out and purge temp data).

 

[FRWriter]

I constantly have SH open. Sometimes 10 tabs. It's obviously not the site's fault... please fix your potato pc instead. This is a huge waste of time.

 

[Lysander_Works]

*Update*

Using an alternate pc with identical browser specs, I don't run into the issue. Thus, this at least proves it is an internal issue, and not some weird script I don't see. Still don't know what's doing it. Sucks to suck sometimes.
Anyway, good night.

 

[Alski]

Purge the browser from your system, and download a clean copy if you want to continue using it.