Annoying crx calls with Chrome

[ble]

Hello,

When testing with Chrome, I found annoying *.crx calls in waterfalls.
I've tried to block them but without success.

It seems to be chrome extension updates.

Is there a way to eliminate them ?

Thx


call #1

URL: http://redirector.gvt1.com/crx/blobs/QgA..._1_2_0.crx
Host: redirector.gvt1.com
IP: 216.58.208.238
Error/Status Code: 302
Client Port: 1708
Start Offset: 0.732 s
Time to First Byte: 79 ms
Content Download: ms
Bytes In (downloaded): 1.5 KB
Bytes Out (uploaded): 0.5 KB

Call #2

URL: http://r20---sn-25g7sm76.gvt1.com/crx/bl...0&key=cms1
Host: r20---sn-25g7sm76.gvt1.com
IP: 208.117.236.153
Error/Status Code: 200
Client Port: 1733
Start Offset: 0.931 s
DNS Lookup: 59 ms
Initial Connection: 59 ms
Time to First Byte: 115 ms
Content Download: 3371 ms
Bytes In (downloaded): 179.0 KB
Bytes Out (uploaded): 0.7 KB

[pmeenan]

Private instance or here on the public instance? I've been playing whack-a-mole with the extension updates and recent agent updates should have them blocked but if not it would help to see a failure so I can add more blocking to the agents.

[weejames]

I'm seeing this issue with Chrome from the Manchester instance at the moment. It's skewing a lot of stats.

[pmeenan]

ok, I just pushed an update that expanded the blocking and that appears to have fixed it. Let me know if you see any more crx downloads sneak in.

[Webnauts]

Hey Patrick it seems like it came back. Happening on different sites I am testing, but here is a good example: https://webpagetest.org/result/200411_HR...p1_request

Any solution planned?

Thanks,

John

[pmeenan]

Sorry, there was a change made over the weekend to show requests where the connection failed (for SPOF, etc). It looks like that also accidentally picked up showing the blocked Chrome requests.

I just made a change to filter those out of the reporting. It'll take about an hour for it to roll out but they should be gone after that.

[pmeenan]

Actually, that's just the clienst1.google.com requests. Looking into what is going on with the other ones now.