[UNRELATED] Flashgot (1.5.5.5) stopped working (FF23, linux)

[Werkbau]

Flashgot suddenly stopped working for me. When trying to send a download to my downloader, a little FlashGot progress bar appears, but it stops at about 1/10 (see picture below). And, after several minutes of it not moving (the browser remains usable), a small popup will come asking if I want to stop an unresponsive script:

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A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.

Script: jar:file:///home/username/.mozilla/firefox/profile/extensions/%7B19503e42-ca3c-4c27-b1e2-9cdb2170ee34%7D.xpi!/components/flashgotService.js:819

My downloader is a shell script that fills a queue. The program doesn't even get invoked, as I added a debug message at startup that should pop out if it was started.
The progress bar gets stuck like this:
I tried upgrading to 1.5.5.6rc2 to no success. I don't recall doing any major update inside Firefox before it stopped working (I update addons manually), it...just did.
I have no experience with webdev or browser dev, the line on the stop script dialog seems to indicate it's going on an infinite loop, but I can't figure out why.

[therube]

At times, high CPU usage can hinder the appearance of your download manager.
That high CPU could be browser related (like from a Flash video playing) or something external to the browser (like some other app gobbling up memory).

(Eventually it will open, but not when expected. But then your unresponsive script message might point to something else?)


Otherwise, as a test, create a new, clean Profile, then only install FlashGot & see if that works.

[Werkbau]

Thanks for your assistance.
After some debugging I managed to find out the culprit. Apparently the latest version of Ghostery was at fault.
The bug has been patched on a beta version, and that makes flashgot behave properly again.