New Interface and Firefox Issue

For some reason, the new interface is very slow in both Firefox and Firefox Nightly once I log in. They are both fast if I'm not logged in. Safari and Chrome are fine logged in or not. Very strange.

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Jun 9, 2016 6:50 AM

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Jun 10, 2016 2:21 AM in response to dialabrain

Followup: The issue and it's not just Firefox. I've recreated the problem in Safari, Firefox, Edge and Chrome on two different Macs, a Windows 10 box and a Linux box. The problem is once you enter into a community, let's say El Capitan, read someone's post, then either back arrow or click the community name at the top right of the page, it takes a long time sitting on "Connecting" before the page finally loads. It only seems to occur when I'm logged in.

Jun 16, 2016 9:22 PM in response to dialabrain

here's what happens

  1. hit the page
  2. Apple's several CSSes load, part of which is loading "Myriad Pro" set of fonts
  3. Content loads via javascript calls to JiveWare databases (I am pretty sure there are three)

This is known as "Client side computing" = it takes much of the "load" off of the Apple servers


Check out the Page Source = Command + U -- or on some browser menu (Firefox's is on "Tools" > "Web Developer" > "Page Source"

You can see what happens BEFORE the actual content starts loading by looking for where the obvious thread content starts loading by the "rules" set up above that area

Jun 16, 2016 9:45 PM in response to ChitlinsCC

Thanks for the info, some of which I understand. 😎


Something I still don't understand is why half the time, if I'm not logged in navigation is very fast. Other times it's the same.


I don't relish the thought of using custom css files with up to 10 computers with multiple browsers on each.


I haven't checked iPads to see if navigation is as bad. Guess I'll do that now.


Thanks again.

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