Randomly the forum gets really slow

[Red Squirrel]

Not slow as in pages taking long to load, but just typing, or even clicking a link, the page randomly freezes so anything you do stops working, ex: not getting hand icon if trying to hover a link, or you type and then it freezes mid way. I had to type this in a text file and paste it in order to post.

This seems to be on and off. There must be some kind of script that causes everything to block. Anyone else get this every now and then? It's been bad latetly. When it happens, "Web Content" process is using 100% cpu. Running Firefox on Linux.

 

[balloonshark]

No problems here with Firefox on a Windows 10 PC. Only thing allowed in noscript is anandtech.com. Ublock Origin also installed fwiw.

 

[mxnerd]

No problem with Chrome/Firefox.

Use Firefox Task Manager to see what's causing the slowdown.

Task Manager - see whether tabs or extensions are slowing down Firefox | Firefox Help

Firefox has a feature that lets you see how much memory and CPU resources are being used by tabs, extensions and other processes. Learn more.

support.mozilla.org

 

[Red Squirrel]

I think it was my machine, it only has 8GB of ram and starts to slow down after a while. It ended up locking up so I was forced to reboot and it's been ok. But still there's some weird business going on with the text boxes here as it was only doing it on this forum. I have more ram on order.

 

[mxnerd]

Seems it's an existing bug of Froala editor (used by Anandtech forum software XenForo) with Firefox.

Firefox quirks with editor focusing and cursor getting stuck · Issue #3247 · froala/wysiwyg-editor

Expected behavior. Multiple spaces should be inserted. The HTML should be inserted without a leading line break. Actual behavior. The cursor appears to get stuck. The HTML is inserted with a leadin...

github.com

 

[VirtualLarry]

The hamsters... they get tired running 24/7, and sometimes, they just gotta take a rest...

 

[BoomerD]

The hamsters... they get tired running 24/7, and sometimes, they just gotta take a rest...

Did they go on fckn vacation tonight? I'm getting very slow page load times...and server errors.

 

[Pohemi]

It isn't just Firefox. I'm running Chrome on Win10 with ublock origin and noscript extensions, and these slow-downs or pages hanging have been happening on and off for at least a week.

Anandtech is the only site I've seen this happening on.

 

[mxnerd]

I gave up uBlock Origin for several years. Using Ghostery and it never give me any problem.

 

[Pohemi]

I gave up uBlock Origin for several years. Using Ghostery and it never give me any problem.

Insufficient data.
I assume you had some issue with ublock at some point? I have not.

 

[mxnerd]

Yeah, It had high CPU usage, ate a lot of memory and slow everything down.
Probably sorted out the issues long time ago, but I already switched to Ghostery, however.

 

[Shmee]

Not exactly a forum issue pe rse, but when trying to access AT front page I get an error. Oh wait, it's fixed now all of a sudden lol.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Even with 16GB it's doing it now and then. I'll be typing then it just freezes midway and then all the characters appear at once. It only does in on this forum. There must be some rogue script running or something that's slowing down the browser.