Firefox high CPU

[darkoshi]

The latest version of the Context Search add-on (3.66) for Firefox seems to have a bug causing high CPU and disk usage.
See the Github problem page.

Disabling the add-on and restarting Firefox prevents the problem. (you may need to kill Firefox from Task Manager).

Comments

re: ETA3

[darkoshi]

Swift has almost 3 times as many users as Context Search, so it may have been around longer. Both have pretty good reviews. The Context Search bug has been fixed now in v3.67, though the search engine favicons aren't showing up for me now so I'm not sure it has fewer problems than Swift. But I don't rely on the favicons anyway; I use the text context menu entries.

Re: ETA3

[marahmarie]

I think text context menu entries are listed as an enhancement bug on SSS's Github page (doesn't have them yet). I'll try Context Menu now, assuming the AMO version got the fix.

Edit Actually, it does have them (in a right-click context menu dropdown list); for some reason I was envisioning something else (a text version of the icon grid?), which I can't actually find in open or closed enhancement bugs. Edit again: yes, I can: it's here: https://github.com/CanisLupus/swift-selection-search/issues/95 (an issue that hasn't been moved to enhancement yet, apparently!)

But anyhow, when enabling icon grid in Context Search, right-click URLs is disabled. SSS doesn't have that issue.

CS does have a lot more default search engines to choose from (including a lot I've literally never seen before, and some of which I'm intrigued by) and nicer icon grids (left-right justified as opposed to centered in SSS, which is just hideous).

CS disables right-click context menus altogether in icon grid view, while SSS doesn't (if you right-click, you get the normal menu), so overall I'm thinking I'd rather eventually unpack the SSS add-on and adjust the CSS (it has an MIT license) and submit bugs for the broken site search (this is working correctly now; hmmm), broken horizontal display option (this is working now, too; don't know why it wasn't before) and missing favicons (add-on dev warns about this on the Options page, as far as resource:/// links go, so no point I guess) than stick with CS.

Re: ETA3

[darkoshi]

> But anyhow, when enabling icon grid in Context Search, right-click URLs is disabled. SSS doesn't have that issue.

That would be a deal-breaker for me too, if I wanted to use the icon grid.

> CS does have a lot more default search engines to choose from (including a lot I've literally never seen before, and some of which I'm intrigued by)

That struck me in the beginning too. I tried a few of them out, and left most of them in the list for whenever I'm feeling adventurous.

Re: ETA3

[marahmarie]

Yeah, I want to use the grid (or at least the strip, which I also like, and SSS has). So I unpacked the XPI and have been futzing with that, but doing so hasn't solved the problems I'm having with the grid (I changed a text-align: center value to left and actually zeroed out all horizontal padding values, but zeroing out one or or more of them (not sure which one(s) just yet) created a 20px gap at the bottom of the grid only when icons are evenly divided between rows (when divided so that less than the amount of icons in the rows above are left over in the last row, the last row, though not the ones above, will just center again, which still looks awful).

But I'll look at the code for that again another time, since it comes down to how I don't think I've figured out *exactly* what I need to change (or add).

I tried a few of them out, and left most of them in the list for whenever I'm feeling adventurous.

I'm actually going to cross-reference them so I can add the more interesting sounding ones to SSS.