MS Edge freezes on 1 site

fringe53 · Monday at 8:50 AM

It's been a week now, everytime I try to go to tvseriesfinale.com I get 100% cpu usage in Edge and obviously have to close it in task manager.
ublock is disabled, even removed it. Everything is up to date. Edge 138.0.3351.55, Windows 26100.4349. Any ideas? I'm stumped. I'd think if others were having this
problem they'd be aware of it by now.

FreeBooter · Monday at 8:53 AM

Is this happens only one website?

Have you deleted temporary internet files?

Try repair install from Control Panel --> Program and features

Scan your computer malware infections.

TheVisitor · Monday at 9:03 AM

just tested the site tvseriesfinale.com and I too get very heavy CPU usage using latest stable edge. Same in 'Private mode'.

EDIT: Tested in latest Firefox Nightly - same result - very high usage on the CPU
EDIT: Tested with Chrome - same but not quite as severe - still runs at 20-25% CPU

fringe53 · Monday at 9:22 AM

FreeBooter said:
Is this happens only one website?

Have you deleted temporary internet files?

Try repair install from Control Panel --> Program and features

Scan your computer malware infections.

yes yes and yes. Nothing helps. I finally managed to get in using private mode and quickly got off an email to them.

KevTech · Monday at 10:46 AM

Opened both Edge and Firefox on the URL but CPU usage is not high.

Berton · Monday at 11:13 AM

Also no issue on Firefox and Edge nor on SeaMonkey.

TairikuOkami · Monday at 11:26 AM

My DNS blocks bunch of trackers, maybe one of them has some extensive script?

Page load time - Microsoft Edge Addons

Make Microsoft Edge your own with extensions that help you personalize the browser and be more productive.

microsoftedge.microsoft.com

This extension roughly shows, what is loading, it took less than a second to load on mine.

abactuon · Monday at 12:03 PM

"Recently, another form of malware known as cryptojacking - mining cryptocurrency in the browser using simple JavaScript - has become very popular. This method allows malicious activity to be performed directly in the victim's browser without installing any software."

win11raider · Monday at 6:14 PM

To check if that web page does cryptojacking, I suggest using some addon that verifies it. In Firefox there is the following addon:

NotMINING.org – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download NotMINING.org for Firefox. EN: Check if your favorite website is mining or not. Developed by Adan K. Martin & Jose C. Garcia Gamero ES: Comprueba si el sitio está minando criptomoneda desde tu navegador. Desarrollado por Adan K. Martin & Jose C. Garcia Gamero

addons.mozilla.org

Levitate11 · Monday at 8:11 PM

win11raider said:
To check if that web page does cryptojacking, I suggest using some addon that verifies it. In Firefox there is the following addon:

NotMINING.org – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download NotMINING.org for Firefox. EN: Check if your favorite website is mining or not. Developed by Adan K. Martin & Jose C. Garcia Gamero ES: Comprueba si el sitio está minando criptomoneda desde tu navegador. Desarrollado por Adan K. Martin & Jose C. Garcia Gamero

addons.mozilla.org

I like the concept... but I don't like the idea of an app that wants access to all my site data across sites. Shouldn't it just need access to the site I'm visiting - assuming it's checking their code for miners as it claims?

win11raider · Monday at 11:26 PM

Levitate11 said:
I like the concept... but I don't like the idea of an app that wants access to all my site data across sites. Shouldn't it just need access to the site I'm visiting - assuming it's checking their code for miners as it claims?

The creators of the addon are trustworthy. I have this addon in Firefox for years. When cryptojacking sites emerged years ago, this addon detected many of them. Since then, it hasn't raised the alarm again until I saw your message.

I have accessed that site from Firefox and, indeed, there is a very high consumption of resources (20-30%). The addon does not detect anything suspicious, so it does not seem that the problem is cryptojacking.

Looking at the Firefox task manager, I confirm that the process that consumes so many resources is “Windows Median Foundation Media Engine CDM”. Another thing I noticed is that the resource consumption returns to normal when the banner on the right finishes loading, which is trying to open above “Cancelled TV Show Lists”.

fringe53 · Monday at 11:55 PM

win11raider said:
The creators of the addon are trustworthy. I have this addon in Firefox for years. When cryptojacking sites emerged years ago, this addon detected many of them. Since then, it hasn't raised the alarm again until I saw your message.

I have accessed that site from Firefox and, indeed, there is a very high consumption of resources (20-30%). The addon does not detect anything suspicious, so it does not seem that the problem is cryptojacking.

Looking at the Firefox task manager, I confirm that the process that consumes so many resources is “Windows Median Foundation Media Engine CDM”. Another thing I noticed is that the resource consumption returns to normal when the banner on the right finishes loading, which is trying to open above “Cancelled TV Show Lists”.

I opened the Edge task manager and got this. The Service worker : chrome exension had peaked at 80% CPU.

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