[Bug] High Rss usage after 4+ hours (Firefox)

Lysander_Works

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I've been having this bug a lot lately, and am not sure what causes it.
Particularly after a long enough time, (across multiple systems even), my PC fans suddenly go full power, all cores get near 60 celcius, and CPU usage for my web browser reaches about 80% (of a 4 core machine) ~ medium specs. 40% memory usage too. All of which is allocated to the web browser directly. For last 2 months I've devoted this browser exclusively to this website [SH, Royal Road, and Youtube (with youtube cookies blocked and tabs closed most often)].

I think this could be a Browser related issue, not a Scribblehub related issue, however, I'd still have to ask some others if they face the same problems (in other browsers). Technical specifications of the browser is Librewolf (a forked version of Firefox), come with adblock, but I shut it off entirely 1 month ago, assuming it was the source of the problem (problem still persists). If I close everything down, clear the cookies/cache, then go back online with a new browser session (ensuring it was fully closed in task manager), the issue is no longer there, for about 2-4 hours at least.

Is anyone else having this problem? At the absolute least, I want to confirm if it is the browser, or if some element of the webnovel sites could be triggering something to go wrong (unintentionally)...

My main system has 8 GB of RAM and Core I3 7100U, Windows 10 [Bloat Removed and Telemetry Turned off]. Recent virus scans have been negative.
 

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Using Google on 3 different devices and I've had zero issue leaving SH tabs open for days at a time.
 

Lysander_Works

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What's odd is that 2-4 hours is generally required to pass before this happens, else there won't be an issue.
 

melchi

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It sounds like you have a coin-miner virus or malware.

I would say check windows security and see if there are any excluded folders for virus scan.
 
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