there HAS to be something wrong with my firefox install.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
it's funny how Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning... Was the Command Line" he talked about how if Apple made cars they'd have sealed hoods. He said that in 1999, before Apple started selling phones they literally glued together
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so I google "there is no antimemetics division" and when the results are up, I click the goodreads link.
NINE SECONDS LATER it shows up.
I hit back, which should take me back to my cached search results, right?three seconds later, it shows up.
Something is deeply fucked here. I have been on faster 56k connections.
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but like, I downloaded some ISOs this morning, they finished in like 10-20 seconds
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so my throughput is fine, but something is wrong with page loading. I'm gonna try going to a fresh profile with no extensions and see if it vanishes
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Okay yeah a fresh profile loads that page in about 0.5 to 1.5 seconds.
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And I fully closed Firefox but task manager is showing 12 instances of firefox.exe.
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Eh, this is windows, not a real OS. I should probably reboot just to be safe.
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it has magically fixed itself.
I GUESS!?
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the problem with IT people is that the more they know, the less they think the ritualistic repair steps are needed, because they think they know how computers work.
Wrong! Computers are and have always been black magic. If it doesn't work, turn it off and back on again, and see if that fixes it!
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@foone This probably isn't your problem, but the geolocation API on windows Firefox is cursed.
A few years ago if I let any website see my location through Firefox I would then get huge latency spikes every few seconds on the entire system, until killing the entire Firefox process tree.
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@zoe ooh, fun
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yeah I think Cl*udfl*re has something to do with this. Today and yesterday I've hit sites that do the "just a moment while we verify you're human" interstitial with the checkbox, but when I click it, it spins for 5 seconds, and then reloads the page to the same "verify you're human" page. I can do it repeatedly and get nowhere
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@foone there's a privacy setting I used to enable which cpu-renders canvas elements to prevent fingerprinting. it hurt my performance really hard, as well as being the primary thing that started tripping captchas for me. so could be related to hardware acceleration / privacy settings.
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@dean ugh. that one completely breaks my site and I have no idea how to fix it, detect it, or work around it.
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@foone clearly you’re not human
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@mathaetaes well that's well known. (insert therian symbol here)
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@foone have you visited a WordPress site in, like, ever? because some invisible subframe/worker is sending my Firefox to swap+CPU death
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@zanchey yikes.
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Snep :floofBlep: @38C3replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone You're not using a User Agent switcher, are you? I had one enabled accidentally a while ago and suddenly couldn't complete any captchas withbthe same fault pattern like you described, once all CF domains where whitelisted in that addon, it sudddnly worked again...
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Snep :floofBlep: @38C3 last edited by
@snep yeah, that was exactly it.
