On 04/30/2014 10:44 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
On 04/30/2014 09:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Is anyone running the Gnome weather extension? I have disabled it and
> my system is running better. Or rather FIrefox is working 'right' again.
>
> This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather
> service, and you can't change this. I had noticed that many places I
> was going to in Firefox took a long time to reply. It was as if Firefox
> was hanging, and other Firefox windows were not responding either.
>
> I finally fired up wireshark and I was seeing that requests for things
> like
apis.google.com (or some such) was being routed through a .no site
> (by reverse lookup on IP address). Perhaps this extension was altering
> Firefox's proxy settings.
>
> I don't have the time or resources to do a serious review, but I am
> pointing this out and perhaps others may have noticed this as well. Or
> are suffering and not knowing it. This may be accidental or really
> actually malicious; just don't know.
>
>
I just fired up Wireshark and set it to monitor all HTTP traffic from my
machine to any address. I'm not seeing anything untoward with respect to
the Weather extension, although I wonder if it's necessary for it to
check in every 15 seconds.
Maybe that was all I was seeing.
FWIW, I'm not using any extensions from the
repo; I've installed them all directly from the Gnome extensions site.
I also installed from the Gnomes extensions site.
There are no slowdowns with either Chrome or Firefox.
I will keep monitoring the situation and see if any slowdowns develop.
Then maybe turn the extension back on (maybe check if there have been
any updates?).