Mozilla will shut down Pocket’s services on July 8, 2025. At that time users will no longer be able to access the Pocket website, apps and API. You can export your saved items and API data until October 8, 2025 before they are permanently removed. For more information, see this article.

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Firefox kept using bandwidth even though no other tabs are loading, or even with only a blank tabs

  • 3 replies
  • 11 have this problem
  • 25 views
  • Last reply by bengkoang

The experience of slow browsing occur this couple of days,

it uses full bandwidth even though i close all tab and just one blank tab (and have to restart the browser to get the bandwidth start to normal).

The browsing experience start normally but after i started watching a couple of videos on Youtube, it start lagging like hell even though i close the Youtube videos (and it slows all website browsing experience), i found out via firewall log and check who.is on the accessed IP are Google owned.

I already tried install re-install, able and disabled plugins, disable add-ons etc. now i just my usual add-on for web development & gaming (which i've installed along time ago and didn't cause problems)

also tried about:config and set the value to false on ipc, the problem still occur

I search google and no solution found, i hope it can be solve here. (to compare it, browsing using chrome does not have this kind of problems)

Update:

- Now it does not only download from google IP, also from AOL & my Internet Service Provider IP

- I've scan my PC with COMODO antivirus & Malwares bytes before and after, the problem still occur

- here's the IP that still accessing 172.194.49.43, 111.94.248.80, 74.125.96.181, 74.125.96.144, 74.125..96.241, 74.125.96.136

- The source that access the IP uses different port, at first it uses 80, now it use port 58279 to 58283, like 192.168.1.104:58279

The experience of slow browsing occur this couple of days, it uses full bandwidth even though i close all tab and just one blank tab (and have to restart the browser to get the bandwidth start to normal). The browsing experience start normally but after i started watching a couple of videos on Youtube, it start lagging like hell even though i close the Youtube videos (and it slows all website browsing experience), i found out via firewall log and check who.is on the accessed IP are Google owned. <br/> I already tried install re-install, able and disabled plugins, disable add-ons etc. now i just my usual add-on for web development & gaming (which i've installed along time ago and didn't cause problems) also tried about:config and set the value to false on ipc, the problem still occur I search google and no solution found, i hope it can be solve here. (to compare it, browsing using chrome does not have this kind of problems) Update: - Now it does not only download from google IP, also from AOL & my Internet Service Provider IP - I've scan my PC with COMODO antivirus & Malwares bytes before and after, the problem still occur - here's the IP that still accessing 172.194.49.43, 111.94.248.80, 74.125.96.181, 74.125.96.144, 74.125..96.241, 74.125.96.136 - The source that access the IP uses different port, at first it uses 80, now it use port 58279 to 58283, like 192.168.1.104:58279

Modified by bengkoang

All Replies (3)

Chosen Solution

Firefox may be updating the phishing protection database.

@cor-el i'm pretty sure that is not an update progress for phishing protection, the ip are too random and it's owned by a well known company, like Google & AOL, i'm really sure that it's not the place where FF looks to update their DB. and the amount of data is sometimes humongous, i once tested to let the process of using bandwidth uninterrupted for 2hours and it trafficked around 2-3gigs of data from Google's IP. and to make sure i've tested again when the symptom appear and let it for a half an hour and it trafficked around 200mb.

@Waka_Flocka_Flame Yup, this solve the problem very fast, test and trial every extension

UPDATE: Yup it's a conflict of extension i never guess, after testing one by one and look on its forum, it's between Flashgot & NoScript and both from the same developer.... :) disable the ABE setting on NoScripts right now it the Internet is working! :) this never happens before from years using this plugins, thanks for the awesome response & help guys!

Modified by bengkoang