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Visiting certain webpages can crash the Operating System

frederick4156
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https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/3468 https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1h0f3wg/ublockorigin_can_cause_the_black_screen_of_death/

The extension developers claim that the issue is with Firefox and deny no fault whatsoever.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/3468 https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1h0f3wg/ublockorigin_can_cause_the_black_screen_of_death/ The extension developers claim that the issue is with Firefox and deny no fault whatsoever.

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markwarner22
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Firefox has no control how that developer creates and implements with Firefox. It's not Firefox to debug their software. Also this is only help user forum so this site can't fix their problem

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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In reading through the issue on Github -- I did not try it myself -- the problem is that the site loads a script in Firefox that repeatedly tries to send background requests much more rapidly than Firefox is equipped to handle:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/3468#issuecomment-2504720071

I added a link to that comment to the bug report:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1504623

You can subscribe to that bug for updates, or volunteer to test any patches they develop for it.

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