PostmarketOS site EndeavourOS fourm Arch Wiki (lately it's very slow on Firefox) Manjaro fourm

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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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 :/

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Archlinux site has been targeted by a DDoS attack recently and apart from that it always works great on any browser/engine

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago*

    Manjaro forum maybe,but postmarket os site and arch wiki is static sites for me it's working very fast in firefox

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    ??? Arch Wiki is just plain html and css? You might be experiencing the ddos arch services have experienced lately. In any case I've not had any problems on Librewolf, although out of the websites you listed I only regularly visit the Arch Wiki and occasionally the PostmarketOS site.

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  • Chrome is just faster than Firefox. I use Firefox, but I do it despite its performance, not because of it.

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  • [+] -23 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    the only sites ff is shit for is Google sites imo (e.g. earth and maps)

    otherwise it's fine

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm a diehard Firefox user but i can instantly notice the preformance improvement when I'm using edge and chrome. I dont need my tech to be the best in class it just needs to work well which firefox does.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    May I ask what your config was, such as distro, packaging format, and extensions were used? Also, what hardware?

    Additionally, what issues specifically were you experiencing specifically? Were sites just loading slowly?

    I ask because I’ve used recent versions Firefox on decently old hardware with 4 GB of RAM and 2 cores and had almost no problems. Everything rendered correctly and in a reasonable amount of time. I’d be curious to know why that isn’t happening for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It’s not that it renders incorrectly so much as abysmal performance. Choppy scrolling, page elements taking a long time to load, etc.

    I did a bit of distro hopping lately so it was on a few distros mainly arch and Fedora base.

    Also experienced this in windows 10 and 11.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Firefox’s rendering engine is trash tier

    /thread

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