Kindle embed block issue

  • ajcomeau

    (@ajcomeau)


    6 months, 3 weeks ago

    I uncovered an interesting problem this morning – I was trying to fix some issues on one of my WordPress pages and, every time I clicked inside the editbox for the page, Edge would start spawning hundreds of processes, take up many GB of RAM and eventually lock up the computer. I think it might have even been responsible for knocking out my wi-fi.

    At first, I just noticed that the cursor kept shifting betwen states like something major was going on in the background but then the whole system started slowing down. I loaded Task Manager and saw what Edge was doing. I tried editing it on another machine just to be sure it wasn’t the mini-PC or that copy of Windows 11. It did the same thing. I also disabled most of my WordPress plug-ins.

    I decided to copy and paste the content into a new blog post and everything was fine until I added the WordPress block that embeds a Kindle book preview into the page. (https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/amazon-kindle/) Then everything started again. Once I removed the block from the page, everything was fine. I haven’t tried it on another browser to rule that out so right now, it’s somewhere between the embed block, WordPress and the Edge browser.

    I tried to capture some video of the whole thing but the Windows snipping tool quit on me during the process.

    I’m not looking for assistance on this as it’s not an essential feature but wanted to put it out there in case anyone else has encountered it.

    • This topic was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by ajcomeau.
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  • Moderator threadi

    (@threadi)

    6 months, 3 weeks ago

    I can’t reproduce that on my end. In a test system with a fresh WordPress installation, I simply added the Kindle block to a page and entered the Amazon URL for “The Great Gatsby.” I opened the resulting page in all kinds of browsers. None of them caused a higher CPU load; everything was completely normal.

    I would recommend ruling out a few other things on your end. For example, do you have any add-ons in your browser? If so, try it without them, e.g., in a private browser window.

    Do you have additional antivirus software or a firewall? Try disabling them.

    If possible, try it on a completely different PC.

    You can also try it in the Playground: https://playground.wordpress.net

    Nicholas Garofalo

    (@eidolonnight)

    6 months, 3 weeks ago

    Also verifying that I was able to test this in both Edge and Chrome, without issue, including with the latest version of Gutenberg.

    Thread Starter ajcomeau

    (@ajcomeau)

    6 months, 3 weeks ago

    I did try it on a second PC, my laptop, and saw the same thing. The main machine was running Windows 11 Pro and the laptop is running 11 Home. The main machine has no extra antivirus and no exotic extensions, just Bitwarden password, uBlock Ad Blocker and Adobe PDF edit. I disabled most of my WordPress plugins and saw the same thing.

    Again, this only happened when editing the page. The published page didn’t have a problem although the Kindle block might not have been displaying at times. The page was an older page from 2013 and had a lot of HTML blocks on it that were pulling graphics from a directory outside of the Media Library. That’s the issue I was trying to fix.

    I just tried it on another, newer page on the site and had no problem.

    Someone in another forum suggested that it might have been caused by a redirect loop of some kind. Maybe it was something in the Amazon URL.

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