Good evening and thank you for making ABP.
Now to the problem. A few days after adding ABP extension to FF, I noticed that FF had written 40 GB in just 4 days, based on the "IO Write Bytes" value in Task Manager. That's 10 GB per day.
During that time period, I have visited several web sites but NO streaming video and NO downloading of big files.
After briefly monitoring FF with Sysinternals' Process Monitor, I noticed that FF made hundreds of writes in just 1 minute to the file "patterns.ini.tmp" and, during that time, the "IO Write Bytes" value increased by 500 MB.
I don't see any file named "patterns.ini.tmp" in my FF profile. I'm guessing that it gets renamed to "patterns.ini".
I have these 4 filter subscriptions: EasyList, MalwareDomains, Fanboy and EasyPrivacy.
The total size of the adblockplus folder in my FF profile is around 18 MB. Even if the filters are updated more than once a day, something doesn't add up...
Or maybe the "IO Write Bytes" value isn't what I think it is. AFAIK, it also accounts for data sent, not received, which should be insignificant.
Please enlighten me or tell me it's a bug and I'll give more details.
I have FF 29.0.1 and ABP 2.6 and a lot of RAM.
TIA.