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Starting yesterday sometime, Facebook Fixer started consuming large amounts of CPU every 15 seconds or so - high enough that I can't do anything in any of open FF tabs or windows. I've tried disabling all other Greasemonkey scripts, but Facebook Fixer does this even if it is the only script active. It does it on both my iBook and and my Macbook (running FF 3.5.3 and OS X 10.6.1 on both machines). I've had to disable Facebook Fixer on both machines so I can continue to use Firefox - I really love Facebook Fixer, so I hope this can be fixed soon.

I had the same problem, but I pinned it down to Facebook Alter or Facebook Purity.. For me, the same problem does not appear only after I turn one of mentioned two off. Interesting. Aparently fight between scripts.

I'm getting a similar issue with the 20090917 release. Was fine until now, but with the 20090917 release enabled, Firefox bogs periodically. Disable it and everything is back to normal. It always played nicely with other add-ons and scripts until today, but now I've had to disable it until the cause is found and a fix is released. A real bummer! :-(

UPDATE: Initial testing reveals it could be a conflict with the "Boost for Facebook" add-on from StudioLD. I disabled that add-on and things SEEM to be better. But they never interfered before and I don't have any overlapping preferences enabled between the two as far as I can tell. If this script were to add one-click poke and auto-poke, I'd ditch Boost in a heartbeat.

Yeah, the latest script still freezes the page here and there.

At the moment, the updated script seems to have alleviated the problem - I've been running for several hours now without any problems.

it is happening more and more when you have a big wall (by clicking "older posts"), so it is not so easy to determine. It seemed to me that it could be Alter or Purity (as written before), but, now I've seen that it is not so easy to determine. Only way to completely get rid of the problem is to turn greasemonkey off which is kind of stupid. Maybe grease is the problem ?

GM itself can't be the problem; disabling only this script (leaving all others enabled) alleviates the problem. GM hasn't been updated in the past few days, which is when the problem occurred -- only after updating to the newest version of this script.

Same problem here. Since the update Firefox starts using lots of CPU for a few secs and then goes back to normal. It seems that it only happens on the homepage but I'm not very sure.

This happens on my computer at home and also on my computer at work. My work computer only has GM for plugin.

Reading older posts is almost impossible now, something's broken. It freezes firefox and the following pops up every now and then:

Warning - Unresponsive script
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: file:///$HOMEDIR/.mozilla/firefox-3.5/$PROFILENAME/extensions/%7Be4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781%7D/components/greasemonkey.js:2310

This happens in my 64-bit Firefox 3.5 and also another computer in 32-bit Firefox 3.0 (both systems running Xubuntu 9.04). I have the "refresh news feed every minute" option turned off in both cases ...

I'll read the statuses in lite.facebook.com until the next update ...

I turned off only fixer and it is definitely fixer's fault. My computer has E6750 and 4 Gig's of RAM so it is not computer's fault. also, if I don't move or do anything, it still happens.. so, it has to be something that script does periodically even though I have automatic refresh turned off. It stops Firefox even if the Facebook is in another tab (like now, while writing this). So, please, your script is one of the better ones I found.. it is hard to live without it now :)

Yup, I'm back to seeing problems - it is definitely related to reading many older posts, and only seems to happen with Facebook Fixer activated.

I use colour changer, purity, fixer, alter and extra links for Facebook, but when I turned off all of them and only used Fixer, I still had a problem.. It is probably something Facebook did. it could have something to do with playing youtube video's in the same window..

The only active script I use with FB is FBF. I do, however, use a lot of add-ons in addition to Greasemonkey. I can try disabling all the add-ons except GM and see if I can replicate the problem.

Okay, just tried it with all add-ons but Greasemonkey disabled and all GM scripts but FB Fixer disabled. I loaded my FB news feed, scrolled to the bottom and waited for the auto-open on the older posts that FB does, then scrolled to the bottom again. Clicked the Older Posts link, then scrolled to the bottom again. Repeated the Older Posts thing 2 more times, and bang, Firefox started with the cyclic CPU spinups. Roughly once every 30 seconds, the CPU would spin up for about 20 seconds, and Firefox would become unresponsive. Disabling FB Fixer and reloading the page restored more appropriate behavior - I was able to click Older Posts many times more without driving the CPU use up.

I then repeated the above procedure twice more with identical results.

Thanks for taking a look at this Vaughan, and thanks again for FB Fixer. I really miss it when I can't use it.

I use no other scripts than FBF when reading the older posts (where the problem gets noticeable)

thank you man for doing such a great work and for helping us getting our favorite script (except for purity) back up and running..

I haven't had time to check it thoroughly, but my first impression is that it works now. However, there is something else.. I use Facebook Alter and Fixer (and some more scripts, but the two together make this problem) and starting with this beta version of Fixer, I had the whole Facebook shifted far to the left, outside of visible screen. Alter has some variables that one can change so I turned off his page widening, but I'm not sure many users would know how to do it...