Slowin Down (Google) Sites

[luziusalbin]

had to deactivate the plugin, after it was causing very heavy slowdowns in google photos and youtube. any chance to get that working soon?

[jrie]

Hello @luziusalbin - there are, unfortunately, a lot of reviews/reports of slowdowns in the Chrome extension store of FlagCookies . I suppose you use Chrome as browser?

In Firefox I, at present, cannot reproduce this issue of slowdowns or high CPU usage at other websites, all seems to be okay as is, also after recent updates to the addon/extension.

Do you experience slowdowns only at this particular websites, or also at other websites? And, do these websites set/add a lot of cookies or cookie data?

I gladly would like to nail this down..

[luziusalbin]

Hi there!

Yes i use the newest version of chrome and it's slowing down google-services. i use google photos a lot and it's not usable anymore with this extension. loading is slowing down the whole browser until it's completely stuck. as well as youtube is loading at very low speed and the videos are alwas in minimum quality shown...

i cannot find any extreme CPU usage, it's just "blocking" something...

thank you!

[MrMxyzptlk]

It's the same for me; Chrome is unusable with Flag Cookies and any Google Sites.

[zwometer]

Chrome was super slow, sometimes completely unresponsive for me. Especially on Google Maps. I had to deactivate Flag Cookies.

The "Utility: Network Service" was hogging CPU and Memory in the Chrome Task Manager when these slow-downs happen.
I hope that helps to get it sorted quickly :)

[cheehieu]

Same issue for me using Chrome on macOS. I mostly experienced the slowdown with Gmail and Google Calendar. Patiently waiting for a fix! 🥲

[jrie]

I currently do not have much available to spend time working on a possible solution because of personal matters.
But I appreciate your feedback in this matter. Because there seem to be a quite amount of people affected by this.

If you have some spare time, please take an eye on in case this behavior occurs at other websites too - which are not related to Google. For example pages with lots of cookie information which might change frequently. Which I presume make the largest noises in regards of "cookie data changes" and might produce some heavier loading times.

Anyhow, thank you all for your insights! :)

[jrie]

A commit 81e3fd1 , which might improve the situation is added. I could not exactly clarify if this was the culprit - but this fixes some error(s) thrown in Chrome.

Can someone of you guys retest with the current Github version of the addon? If you need some assistance on how to test, please let me know. Bare in mind, the manifest file manifest_v3_chrome_browsers.json has to be renamed to manifest.json (rename or delete the existing manifest.json file which is created for Firefox).

[ColinFarL]

@jrie I tested the latest version from master in my Chrome and unfortunately it still tanked the browser speed (notably Maps and YouTube) as much as before until I disabled it.

[KonoVitoDa]

I use Brave Browser (Chromium-based). For me it's slowing down Outlook, making it unusable; and also a few other sites, like Shopee, AliExpress and others I can't record at the moment.

[tom12011]

I wondered why my Brave browser had been acting up over the last couple of months and had just found out it was because of this extension. Curious its not happening on Firefox, wonder if it has something to do with Google's DRM war

[farOverNinethousand]

I can confirm the slowdowns and they're not only happening on MS/Google websites but on any so the title of this ticket may be changed.
OS: Win 10
Chrome: Version 123.0.6312.86 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit)

Here, it was slowing down Chrome to a point where it was nearly unusable.