Timed reloads freeze Firefox and spike CPU
Firefox freezes for several seconds at a time or hogs CPU while the add-on's timed reloads run.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 31 July 2019 · last reported 13 June 2026
What's going wrong
Users report that Firefox freezes for three to five seconds at a time, or that the whole browser slows and CPU usage spikes while timed reloads run.
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