Open Bug 1949252 Opened 8 months ago Updated 8 days ago

Meta Messenger causing high CPU load

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(Core :: Performance: General, defect)

Firefox 136
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(Reporter: azdanov, Unassigned, NeedInfo)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Steps to reproduce:

When using Meta Messenger and just leaving it for a minute in the background it starts to cause high CPU load.

Actual results:

https://share.firefox.dev/3QqJ0mo

I've recorded a profile. The tab is constantly sitting around 80% CPU load and causing my laptop to overheat.

Expected results:

I expected it not to cause any issues and have low CPU usage since I wasn't using the Messenger in any way.

UA: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0"

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Performance' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Performance
Product: Firefox → Core

The issue seems to be caused by uBlock Origin blocking an endpoint, which caused this excessive CPU load. But I wonder if it's possible to prevent such things, since uBlock Origin is widely used.

In particular these two:

! 20 Feb 2025 https://www.messenger.com
@@||www.messenger.com/ajax/bnzai$xhr,domain=www.messenger.com

! 20 Feb 2025 https://www.facebook.com
@@||www.facebook.com/ajax/qm/$ping,domain=www.facebook.com

After more testing it didn't help. I recorded another profile https://share.firefox.dev/4i6ESDQ

This bug was moved into the Performance component.

:azdanov, could you make sure the following information is on this bug?

  • ✅ For slowness or high CPU usage, capture a profile with http://profiler.firefox.com/, upload it and share the link here.
  • For memory usage issues, capture a memory dump from about:memory and attach it to this bug.
  • Troubleshooting information: Go to about:support, click "Copy raw data to clipboard", paste it into a file, save it, and attach the file here.

If the requested information is already in the bug, please confirm it is recent.

Thank you.

Flags: needinfo?(azdanov)

(In reply to BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte] from comment #4)

This bug was moved into the Performance component.

:azdanov, could you make sure the following information is on this bug?

  • ✅ For slowness or high CPU usage, capture a profile with http://profiler.firefox.com/, upload it and share the link here.
  • For memory usage issues, capture a memory dump from about:memory and attach it to this bug.
  • Troubleshooting information: Go to about:support, click "Copy raw data to clipboard", paste it into a file, save it, and attach the file here.

If the requested information is already in the bug, please confirm it is recent.

Thank you.

It's recent.

Flags: needinfo?(azdanov)
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