Add-on freezes Firefox and bloats memory
The add-on freezes Firefox, crashes it, slows JavaScript-heavy sites, and grows to huge memory use.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
7 public reports · first reported 23 January 2024 · last reported 8 July 2026
What's going wrong
Firefox users of the Surfshark browser add-on report that the browser becomes sluggish, freezes or crashes, and some sites stop responding entirely.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 7 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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