Post by @ajroach42@retro.social

What the hell is going on with recent builds of firefox? My browser performance (on a 100+GB RAM machine with 32 cores) is actively pathetic!

It's not RAM, it's not a CPU bottleneck, it's not the GPU. I'm not getting thermal throttled, it's not the network connection (see attached.)

It's not *every* website, but it's especially bad on youtube and canva (which leads me to believe it's the DRM subsystem, but I haven't allowed DRM on any pages, so if it is the DRM subsystem, they're no longer offering the Allow DRM popup?)

It takes a good 90 seconds for a youtube page to fully render!

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@mdm@mcnamarii.town 1 hr. ago

@ajroach42

"on a 100+GB RAM machine with 32 cores"

I don't know, do you have a machine that us mere mortals might use to browse the internet, or do you only browse on Forbin's Colossus /s

Andrew (making toys)

@ajroach42@retro.social 1 hr. ago

@mdm I do most of my browsing on an 8ish year old thinkpad, this is my 3D modeling and video editing workstation (for producing video for @video and models for toys for @MountainTownToys )

The thinkpad is having the same problems, but I kind of expect that with 8GB of ram and a 10 year old processor design.

I just wanted to make it clear that this bottleneck was not a resource issue, and is absolutely a firefox issue.

Administrator

@mdm@mcnamarii.town 50 min. ago

@ajroach42 @video @MountainTownToys Could you try Firefox ESR? Only version I use anymore.

Andrew (making toys)

@ajroach42@retro.social 46 min. ago

@mdm @video @MountainTownToys Probably should, yeah.

Fran

@Fran@pipou.academy 1 hr. ago

@ajroach42 Youtube got caught some time ago with a bit of code that would slow its loading on Firefox

Andrew (making toys)

@ajroach42@retro.social 1 hr. ago

@Fran And if it was just youtube, I'd suspect something like that, but it's multiple websites, youtube is just the one I hit most often.

Jamey Sharp

@jamey@toot.cat 1 hr. ago

@ajroach42 I don't know, though to the best of my knowledge, YouTube doesn't use DRM (as much as I imagine they wish they did).

I was confused by your mention of the "DRM subsystem", because to me that refers to the Direct Rendering Manager subsystem, which you need for basically any graphics on a modern Linux system and which is completely unrelated to Digital Rights Management.

Direct Rendering Manager

subsystem of the Linux kernel for graphics

Tamazon ⁂

@tamazon@indieverse.social 1 hr. ago

@ajroach42 Reportedly, Youtube specifically targets non-Chromium browsers and artificially puts pauses in.

Using a user-agent switcher specifically for Youtube and lying and telling Youtube that you're using Chrome might help.

Andrew (making toys)

@ajroach42@retro.social 1 hr. ago

@tamazon If it was just stuttering video playback I probably wouldn't mind, but it's even just loading the damn UI.

I dunno, I'll try it.

Andrew (making toys)

@ajroach42@retro.social 1 hr. ago

(that's over wifi, of course.)