Computer help needed: (Mozilla) AdBlock Plus Causing Video Lag

11/15 | self

[icwhatudo]

It happens in both. On flash I tried your suggestions with no effect.

[Brother Cracker]

For what it’s worth, here are some of the issues people have had with ad block plus — if you want to keep troubleshooting.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=adblock+adobe+flash+player+problem

[icwhatudo]

windows7

[icwhatudo]

Thanks brother. Good to see, I guess, its not just me.

[GeronL]

I recently needed a Win 7 video driver update

it was on the Microsoft site and there was “fix it” utility button and it worked.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2665946

[miliantnutcase]

We tried. I would post this on the Ad Block forums and give them your hardware configurations. Short of an OS refresh I’m out of ideas.

[icwhatudo]

Appreciate the effort-thanks!

[icwhatudo]

Found out I’m not the only one. This guy describes EXACTLY what is happening to me:

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Postby Lakarra » Fri Nov 14, 2014 2:18 am
Hi guys, hoping someone can help?
Basically what’s happening is that when I use a live stream site, veetle.com with abp enabled, all in the past has been fine up until recently. I have investigated if it’s a FF issue on its own, apparently not as the same issue is happening to me on chrome too. I’ve investigated that it may be a flash player issue, so today uninstalled a recent and clean download and re-downloaded and seems to have made zero difference. I have also double checked all my filters, removed anything I have blocked recently, and even just now just left it at Easylist + EasylistPrivate. Yet the problem persists.

When I load any channel on veetle (usually I’m in the entertainment/shows sections) everything loads as normal. And then about a minute or two into the page having loaded, plugin-container.exe is doing its usual stuff but then the firefox process spikes to about 50-55% even though I’ve not done anything except stay on the page. I’ve looked under blockable items and at the same time as the spikes is a whole load of object sub-requests of google analytics, (gifs apparently) but all loading and loading and loading one after another about 30-40 and more and more. It’s the only thing I can identify as coinciding as the spike. The particular one is supposed to be blocked by EasyList + EasyPrivate

http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.g ... nNoAds*DFP)&utmcs=UTF-8&utmsr=1680x1050&utmsc=24-bit&utmul=en-gb&utmje=0&utmfl=15.0%20r0&utmdt=My%20Name%20Is%20Earl%20-%20live%20streaming%20from%20anywhere%20to%20everyone%20powered%20by%20Veetle&utmhid=1307366823&utmr=-&utmp=/index.php/channel/view&utmac=UA-11403043-1&utmcc=__utma%3D24945981.1468533765465534700.1415573492.1415845728.1415924999.33%3B%2B__utmz%3D24945981.1415573492.1.1.utmcsr%3D(direct)%7Cutmccn%3D(direct)%7Cutmcmd%3D(none)%3B

or, as the filter code is /__utm.gif
Is showing up as blocked and even when I have directly unblocked it it still creates a spike
And unfortunately the whole thing holds firefox and my cpu hostage. When I disable abp it runs smooth, but obviously with ads, some that interrupt the stream, and some are ads by google. But it doesn’t spike the firefox process except for nominal spikes related to page “reloads” of ads.
So my thinking is that the easy list, easylistprivate and say other fanboy filters (annoying and social media) are missing something that is being hidden or that google/veetle are circumventing abp lists (and yes I did update them and they were up to date at 3am 13th Nov GMT) to discourage the use of abp. Reporting the issue with the filter doesn’t seem appropriate as screen shot taken doesn’t seem to capture an ad, or any relevant data such as cpu activity or recurring events on page that may be blockable that might, otherwise be of use, so I didn’t think it would be taken kindly just showing a screen shot of a webpage where I can’t highlight anything of use such as an identifiable ad that the filter isn’t blocking and where relevant data I can’t add by means of my own screen shot. And I don’t know if that’s even at all relevant, like I don’t want to be wasting people’s time really if I’m just seeing things that aren’t there, if you know what I mean?
any suggestions, thoughts, help, ideas? Even of what is going on? As I said this is a recent issue, and to clarify I hadn’t been messing around with filters or anything up until long after the problem was there. I can’t get help on veetle as they don’t have a forum and I’m not even sure if the issue is even with abp or veetle, or just me and my end, or just some update somewhere along the way that threw a spanner in the works. And as I said, I have this same problem on chrome. As far as I can tell I don’t have some mysterious extension that I never downloaded or any pups hanging around that might complicate things. Also getting similar spikes in cpu for plugin-container and firefox on vaughnlive.tv, more so where the plugin is double the expected nearly at 80% cpu consumption. edit - went back to vaughanlive.tv, it’s the same issue where firefox process is spiking rather than plugin now, as outlined above. I tried ustream and I’m not having any problems there at all. Could perhaps it just be me? It is wrecking my head a bit tbh!

Thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read

[ShadowAce]

[roamer_1]

Found out I’m not the only one. This guy describes EXACTLY what is happening to me:

You've done a fine job of winnowing out the problem - I think you have proved it perfectly, except update Java just for giggles...

Beyond that (and what you have done to update ABP and FLASH), I would STOP.

Either temporarily allow the adds or use a different site (or DL the stream as was suggested above, or DL w/ Torrent)... All valid work-arounds...

ABP dude is as capable as anyone w/ ad blocking... give a few days to allow resolution of the matter... camp out on his forum... No sense in screwing w/ your system for what is definitely an ADP/Flash/Java problem that will probably be resolved in a few days.

If it doesn't get resolved... THEN you have to take a decision... Either a different ad-blocker, or different sites... or different methods...

[Enlightened1]

Hey did you resolve this issue?

I briefly ran into the same issue, and was able to clear it. It works great now weather my Ad Block is on or not.

I was going through all of my “Tools” tab in my Adnvance System Pro. What cleared it was under the “System Clean” column.

I think it was the “Empty Folder Scan” and “Cloned Files Scanner” getting hung up in the Firefoz that was causung the hang up. At this point, it does not matter if I have my Ad blocker on or off.

Anyway everything is lightening fast now. This is what I have. Advance System Pro (8.0 for Windows 7 Pro)It cost me $14.95 a year. I have been using it for a few years now, and have had almost zero problems. What I like about it too is that it’s very user friendly.

http://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcarepro.php

[icwhatudo]

I clicked on the ABP icon, went to options, and unclicked “count filter hits”. It seems to have solved about 95% of the issue but my firefox memory usage is still spiking (505,000 right now)

[Enlightened1]

I’m tell you have get the Advance System Pro, (not the Ultimate), and you will not regret it. It’s worth the price. I would not say it over and over again if I didn’t think it would work.

http://www.iobit.com/advancedsystemcarepro.php

For the record I use Microsoft Security Essentials for my virus protection since it’s free and fast.