Amazonaws causing problems with Firefox

Malevolence · 20 Feb 2015 at 17:14

Does anyone know what this crap is?

I don't know which site it is as it happens on quite a few, Imgur, digitalspy.co.uk and Wikipedia are two culprits, this thing starts my connection uploading/downloading causing Firefox to lock up and unable to open any more websites. Hell, it won't even allow me to refresh any sites already open in tabs. The only way to fix it is to close Firefox and re-open it.

I'm not running anything on my system that causes this and I've run both AV and anti-malware scans which have all come up as negative. So it has to be something on these websites that's causing this to start. I've tried adding ec2.amazonaws.com to my HOSTS file but it still persists. Is it some sort of Amazon CDN or something?

Is there anyway to block this thing?

nutcase · 20 Feb 2015 at 21:36

It's amazon's cloud hosting. A video conference thing we're trying runs off of it.

marc2003 · 20 Feb 2015 at 23:34

have you tried firefox in safe mode? it could be some addon or plugin. i remember gmail notifier taking loads of bandwidth when i really couldn't afford it on a 3G connection. ( i say loads in relative terms. it would be nothing on proper broadband.

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Rroff · 20 Feb 2015 at 23:41

Ever since 34.0.5 Firefox has been going down the pan fast

I'd be embarrassed if I was involved with development of it. Gone from stable and decent performance to loads of rendering bugs, memory leaks, hugely increased memory and CPU use on average, performance on complex sites has rock bottomed, easily becomes unresponsive (threading optimisation seems to have gone out the window), etc.

I'm seriously tempted to rollback to 34.0.

TheVoice · 21 Feb 2015 at 00:06

Rroff said:
Ever since 34.0.5 Firefox has been going down the pan fast I'd be embarrassed if I was involved with development of it. Gone from stable and decent performance to loads of rendering bugs, memory leaks, hugely increased memory and CPU use on average, performance on complex sites has rock bottomed, easily becomes unresponsive (threading optimisation seems to have gone out the window), etc.

I'm seriously tempted to rollback to 34.0.

They certainly seem to be losing their way. I had a button appear on my toolbar yesterday, seemingly they've added a thing called 'Hello' which is some video communication messenger thing. Who has ever asked for that?

Rroff · 21 Feb 2015 at 00:07

Indeed - if I wanted that kind of functionality I'd install the appropriate software - I don't need my web browser pushing those kind of features.

You can atleast use the customise feature to remove those buttons though.

Malevolence · 21 Feb 2015 at 06:08

Tried Firefox in safemode with no luck. Switched to Waterfox and, touch wood, all seems to be fine. I read somewhere that is it maybe some of Firefox's new 'features' that cause this, the main culprit could be the 'Sync' feature they added a few releases back.