Ghostery update

In case you don't let things AutoUpdate, like me

In which case there might be more def's available then there was for me.

 

Ghostery defs are updated quite regularly so a thread about it might be a bit pointless.

 

Has anyone noticed Ghostery being a bit sluggish on Firefox 4.1?

 

No Daveski17, I have not noticed a slowdown. Are you running it with all options checked. I do not use the cookie option (unnecessary if you already block third-party cookies), and I do not use the redirection and dynamically inserted elements options.

 

I don't use the cookie option either. I may uncheck the redirection & dynamically inserted elements though, to see if it improves performance. A few upgrades ago Ghostery had the same problem for me (on my Notebook). Although other people had reported it on the Ghostery forum. I haven't noticed the same problem on SeaMonkey (2.1 RC or stable).

Basically, what happens is that I open a page full of trackers (like Reuters for example) & when I return to the Firefox home page the Ghostery icon is still blue & reporting several trackers. It is only if I then open a similar tracker-free page that it finally reports zero trackers.

I'll see what happens if I uncheck some performance items.

EDIT: I tried unchecking & it still acts sluggishly. It works perfectly well in SeaMonkey 2.1 RC.

 

I just went to Reuters and back to my home page and could not reproduce your issue. Are you also blocking web bugs (scripts)?

 

I have the bug blocking checked, yes, if that's what you mean. Apparently I'm blocking 486. It still works perfectly well in SeaMonkey.

 

Thanks for the heads up I'll update it later today.