Helplogger.blogspot.com Running on Safari (Eating Battery)

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Helplogger.blogspot.com Running on Safari (Eating Battery)

Hi All,

I've looked all over but can't find another instance of this.

I recently switched back to Safari after noticing that Chrome ate up all my ram. Today I noticed my battery was draining very very fast so I pulled up the Activity Monitor to see that Safari had an average impact of over 200 (while everything else was usually <1. Hitting the dropdown arrow, it was all coming from two plugins (I guess? Not super technical) which were labeled http://www.helplogger.blogspot.com - each running 99. I went to the website and its just a blog about improving your website - and nothing that I had opened previously.

Here's a picture of what I see:

Any advice on how to shut those down?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 29, 2015 11:34 AM

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Answer 1

Eric Root

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Apr 30, 2015 7:30 AM in response to camick222

Can you quit the process using the button at the top left?

Safari/Preferences/Advanced - enable the Develop menu, then go there and Empty Caches. Quit/reopen Safari and test. Then try Safari/History/Show History and delete all history items. Quit/reopen Safari and test. You can also try try Safari/Clear History and Web Site Data. The down side is it clears all cookies.Doing this may cause some sites to no longer recognize your computer as one that has visited the web site.

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Answer 2

epleku

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Nov 10, 2015 6:00 AM in response to Eric Root

I have the same problem.

Emptying cache, deleting/clearing history and web site data works for a few hours, then the process comes back 😟

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Answer 3

Eric Root

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Nov 10, 2015 6:30 AM in response to epleku

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library./Caches/com.apple.Safari/Caches.db and move it to the trash.

Go to Safari Preferences/Extensions and turn all extensions off. Test. If okay, turn the extensions on one by one until you figure out what extension is causing the problem.

Safari Corruption See post by Linc Davis

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