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Just wondering if I can somehow track if all that data was used by a particular add-on or tab or what.

Historically I've been using about .5gb every month, I haven't done anything different today but here we are. What can I do to find out what happened and prevent the same scenario?

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[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably some tab. Buggy javascript sometimes goes into infinite loops, including DDoSing its own website with 0-timeout requests, and no way to immediately tell other than the phone getting warm. You probably can't see it now that the tab is closed, and I'm not sure if the mobile firefox has access to these features, but on desktop you can see open sockets with sent/received bytes in about:networking, and per-tab/per-addon cpu usage in about:performance, and set up logging for next time. But otherwise there isn't a convenient chart with per-website data usage hidden somewhere.

[–] aucunLien@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks a lot, I did not know about either. But yeah, short of having had logging set up ahead of time, it doesn't seem like I can get much more on the incident unfortunately.

Some more granularity in Android's data usage warnings, with maybe some sanity check presets (like a single app using up over 1gb in the same day or something) would be an easy and relatively painless way to avoid these, but I don't think there's anything more than the xgb over 30-day periods thing unfortunately.

Oh well. Hopefully it was a fluke. Day 1 of my monthly data allowance this happens, and my carrier are absolute dicks with their pricing for additional data. Ducks to be me