Add-on freezes Firefox and spikes memory and CPU
Firefox freezes or hogs memory and CPU for long stretches while the Bitwarden add-on is active after updates.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
8 public reports · first reported 19 January 2025 · last reported 7 August 2025
What's going wrong
Some Firefox users say that after recent updates the Bitwarden add-on makes the whole browser stop responding for seconds at a time, especially during login or while copying a password.
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