PostmarketOS site EndeavourOS fourm Arch Wiki (lately it’s very slow on Firefox) Manjaro fourm
Archlinux site has been targeted by a DDoS attack recently and apart from that it always works great on any browser/engine
Most sites run as well, if not better, on Firefox for me.
If you’re running a quick and dirty test, you might not get an accurate picture of the performance differences. For example:
- Your usual browser might have cached some content from the last time you used it
- Unless you kill them properly, your computer might not have the RAM/processing to be running two browsers at the same time with the best performance
- One browser might be bogged down with extensions / issues that built up over time
You could try giving Firefox a clean install, or opening it in
safe mode(it’s now called troubleshoot mode), to see if there’s any difference– that or plugins/extensions
these sites work well for me too and i also use firefox on all of my devices.
In the 6 years I’ve been with Firefox on Linux on my 9-year-old laptop, I could count on both hands the number of sites that didn’t render correctly, and on one hand the number that didn’t run or weren’t performant.
Maybe I’m just lucky, but I definitely feel for folks who are stuck with Chrome and all those ads.
postmarketOS and Arch wiki? That’s very weird, aren’t both plain mediawiki? Works really well on my Firefox. Even works on SeaMonkey.
EndeavourOS/Manjaro forum probably uses Discourse… I don’t get why people like that forum software :/
probably uses Discourse… I don’t get why people like that forum software :/
I don’t either. It hates minority browsers even more than Cloudflare does, doubles down on this by using unnecessary bleeding-edge Javascript constructs, and every instance of it I’ve ever seen looks ugly as hell.
I don’t get why people like that forum software :/
feature packed with a really clean and user friendly UI + each distro can easily customize it to add lots of their own brand identity (Manjaro especially appreciates this).
I don’t have a problem with it not loading correctly, and it loads quickly even on somewhat slow internet (using Firefox).
Forum software is like exactly what raw html/css was made for, i don’t understand the need for slow js bloat
it feels like a “web app” more than a website. Like, it somehow needs to “load” after loading the page… unlike classic forum softwares that just instantly show the pre-rendered page.
this is personal preference but the ui also feels way too ‘simple’, hard to navigate and has low info density. i guess this is how more people nowadays prefer things to work
it feels like a “web app” more than a website. Like, it somehow needs to “load” after loading the page… unlike classic forum softwares that just instantly show the pre-rendered page.
I kind of like this behavior. If you’re writing a complex website with user posts, comments, tags, and other nifty stuff and want it to stay modular it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll end up with this loading behavior (unless you want to SSR everything).
ui also feels way too ‘simple’, hard to navigate and has low info density. i guess this is how more people nowadays prefer things to work
Don’t know about that, I find it easy to navigate with the consistent sidebar elements. Searching for posts is easy since they’re usually well tagged and have good titles. Searching for solutions and checking out community contributions and votes is about 90% of my use case for a forum. Maybe you have different use cases.
ironic
Alanis, is that you?
It’s like rain on OPs wedding day
A free ride when they’ve already paid
The good advice that they just won’t take is spot on for the Arch Wiki, though.
Manjaro forum maybe,but postmarket os site and arch wiki is static sites for me it’s working very fast in firefox
I know the Linux community has a hard time accepting this, but Firefox’s rendering engine is trash tier. Even in Windows.
I don’t know the inner workings or politics, I can only go by anecdotal evidence. Firefox runs like shit for me on everything.
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May I ask: when did you last try Firefox? There was a period during the 2010s when it has truly horrible performance, but they rolled out some major updates several years ago that greatly improved performance (though wouldn’t call some of the UI changes improvements).
Honestly, every major rendering engine is terrible in some way.
- Blink is resource intensive and has so many non-standard APIs for the sake of Google’s version of “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”.
- WebKit takes 50 years to support the newest standards.
- Gecko (Firefox) is non-modular and is limited to being used in Firefox, Thunderbird, and forks and Firefox as a result. Its performance is also somewhat worse than Chrome’s, but not noticeable for daily use.
Ultimately, I choose Firefox because its issues are the least annoying to me. I do wish its structure was more community-based and less corporation-eating-its-own-hand, but whatever. So long as Debian sees it fit to keep in its repos, I’ll use it.
Moved off Firefox this month. I was die hard Firefox user for decades. All the way back to Netscape and the original Mozilla browser with the t-Rex logo.
I tried using zen and librewolf but they both suffered the same problem. Dogshit engine.
Well anecdotally many of us have the opposite experience so I guess sucks to be you?
Going by my experience, the problem is something else at your end. Mind you, I don’t load it down with loads of extensions.
the only sites ff is shit for is Google sites imo (e.g. earth and maps)
otherwise it’s fine
Honestly, even those don’t run that horrid for me when I have to use them.
they’re not unusable but you can definitely notice there’s some Google fuckery going on with them
Also YouTube
https://lifehacker.com/tech/stop-google-slowing-down-youtube-firefox-edge
Changing the user agent seems to help in some cases
Firefox’s rendering engine is trash tier
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There’s like 3 rendering engines. Not everything can be described with a tier list.
Let’s say it’s just trash, then.
