there HAS to be something wrong with my firefox install.
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there HAS to be something wrong with my firefox install.
I know Google has put a lot of time and money into making chrome fast but firefox can't be this far behind. -
my network engineer roommate suggested it might be the secure DNS. Sure enough, firefox was configured to send all my DNS requests over HTTPS to Transphobia Central, so that was probably slowing it down a tad.
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@foone wait, which transphobia central?
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@solonovamax Cloudflare.
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That helped, I think? but it's still slow. There is probably something fucky going on with my network but since this is my laptop I don't have the tools to diagnose it further.
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Graham Sutherland / Polynomialreplied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by
@foone are you getting the thing where you press pause and it takes several seconds to respond?
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Graham Sutherland / Polynomial last edited by
@gsuberland nah. it's mostly slowness in loading new pages, and sometimes slowness in loading images on those pages
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speedtests are fine, but my latency is ridiculous. like I'll click a link on a search and it'll take 5 seconds to start showing the new page
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when I can I'll have to carry this thing up to an ethernet port and plug it in there.
wait, fuck, this laptop doesn't even have ethernet! IT IS CLEARLY BROKEN
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number of ports on laptops peaked in the early 2000s and it has been a slow downhill slide since then.
I'm still waiting for Apple (and it will be Apple, mark my words) to release a laptop with zero ports.
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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.
