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Did Amazon change something on their site? Browser keeps locking up

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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It seems Amazon has some serious overuse of javascript issues going on suddenly, I can barely even use the site, it constantly locks up my browser. Even trying to type in the search bar it just keeps locking up. Anyone else notice this?
 
I'm on Linux, never bothered to installed another browser, I think there's Konkoror I could try? But no just tried Firefox. It works fine on other sites though, and it only started doing this recently on Amazon only. If I restart it then it's good for that session but if I come back another day it will be slow again. It's like if it has to do some kind of check and once it's done then it works ok.
 
It's working fine for me. I'm using Chrome and LM17.1 Cinnamon. ABP and Ghostey are the only extensions I have installed.
 
Red Squirrel said:
It seems Amazon has some serious overuse of javascript issues going on suddenly, I can barely even use the site, it constantly locks up my browser. Even trying to type in the search bar it just keeps locking up. Anyone else notice this?
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Same here Ubuntu and Firefox.
Very slow and locks up. Sometimes even causes Firefox to close.

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This only started in the last few days too. I'm not doing anything different than before.

I suppose I could try rebooting, and it might very well fix it, but I have too much crap open. 😛

Someone needs to take Firefox, remove all the bloat, and make a Firefox Lite. I'm surprised this has not been done already. Is the code just too terrible? I imagine it would be considering how they are fast tracking it so much, it's at like what, 37 now? lol.
 
Red Squirrel said:
This only started in the last few days too. I'm not doing anything different than before.

I suppose I could try rebooting, and it might very well fix it, but I have too much crap open. 😛

Someone needs to take Firefox, remove all the bloat, and make a Firefox Lite. I'm surprised this has not been done already. Is the code just too terrible? I imagine it would be considering how they are fast tracking it so much, it's at like what, 37 now? lol.
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Version numbers are in no way shape or form indicative of the quality of the code.
 
Been happening for a couple months, for me, with FF itself on Windows or Linux (64-bit), and Waterfox in Windows. It's not exactly quick and lightweight in Chrome, though. Disabling all add-ons does little good.
 
Red Squirrel said:
This only started in the last few days too. I'm not doing anything different than before.

I suppose I could try rebooting, and it might very well fix it, but I have too much crap open. 😛

Someone needs to take Firefox, remove all the bloat, and make a Firefox Lite. I'm surprised this has not been done already. Is the code just too terrible? I imagine it would be considering how they are fast tracking it so much, it's at like what, 37 now? lol.
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It's less the code being terrible, as that they made some bad initial design decisions, for PCs with lots of RAM and multiple cores, and the devs have been stubborn, over the years (like blaming everyone and everything else for their misuses of SQLite's features). But, other browser attempts haven't been able traction like FF and Chrome, so...
 
I was going to make a thread on this like a week ago to see if anyone else was having issues. It seems to only happen on Amazon.

Jodell88 said:
Nah, the latest version of Firefox in FUBAR'd IMO. The same thing happens with the Hume thread for me.
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It's been working fine for me everywhere else. It's just on Amazon. Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Task Manager (which seems to halt whatever is causing the problem) to get it to stop and then close the tab. Seems to get worse the longer I have Firefox open too (so if I just opened it, Amazon will actually be mostly fine, but it pretty quickly goes to crap).

I figure it's some script or something (I use NoScript and pulling up the Task Manager halts the issue which also works when Flash gets buggy). I didn't notice any unusual RAM usage so I don't think that's the cause (which they had seemed to resolve there for a little while AdBlock's cache blowing up Firefox RAM usage but it's back now too I think).

It seems to work ok in Chrome but I don't like using Chrome much.
 
Hopefully Microsoft's new browser will bring the competition they used to bring to IE to make it stop sucking.

If plug-ins work as well as on Firefox I'll definitely consider switching to IE or Edge. Refuse to switch to Chrome as plug-ins just plain do not function as well (some I'm sure are better on Chrome, but AdBlock is so much better on Firefox, and there was a recent issue that apparently highlighted that Chrome's extensions have flaws that Firefox and IE's don't).

Red Squirrel said:
This only started in the last few days too. I'm not doing anything different than before.

I suppose I could try rebooting, and it might very well fix it, but I have too much crap open. 😛

Someone needs to take Firefox, remove all the bloat, and make a Firefox Lite. I'm surprised this has not been done already. Is the code just too terrible? I imagine it would be considering how they are fast tracking it so much, it's at like what, 37 now? lol.
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There's a bunch of offshoots of Firefox but I don't think they will necessarily fix this issue.

And like was said, version numbers are meaningless (which I don't know why some people are still bitching about that).
 
I've had this issue with Amazon.com not quite sure how I was able to get out from under it... perhaps not use firefox with amazon? Currently using chrome at the moment.
 
Kwatt said:
NoScript disable images-amazon.com

It seems to help. Can anyone else try it? And let us know.
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I've had this problem for weeks on my MacBook Air using Firefox and had to use Safari for Amazon. Installing the most recent version of noscript resolved it.

Not sure why Amazon thinks you need a quantum computer to run their website, though. Obscene.
 
Kwatt said:
NoScript disable images-amazon.com

It seems to help. Can anyone else try it? And let us know.

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:thumbsup:

+whatever their SSL image provider was, though I think blocking images blocked that too. 🙂
 
Kwatt said:
NoScript disable images-amazon.com

It seems to help. Can anyone else try it? And let us know.

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Yep that seems to have done it for me. Though that seems to disable cycling through images. I don't get why coders feel the need to make such bloated javascript code though. That stuff could be done in such a way that it does not kill the browser.
 
Why NOT assume that everybody has a much more powerful device for interacting with your website?
 
who? said:
Why NOT assume that everybody has a much more powerful device for interacting with your website?
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Because it's irrelevant, in this case? My experiences are with >3GHz Haswell and Ivy Bridge quad cores.
 
It doesn't lock for me, but it's terribly sluggish. (Firefox)
It's been getting progressively worse over the past few years.

The tab keeps intermittently showing as "connecting," and it maxes out one CPU core for dozens of seconds while a page keeps loading more content. It's slow on anything from a 1.33GHz i5 mobile CPU up to a 3.2GHz i7, though it's obviously more tolerable on the i7.
 
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