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Forum Bugs - Listed by browser

from Demigod Forums

For numerous reasons, I'm not able to use just one browser when surfing.

I prefer Firefox, but your site is about the only reason why I have to use different browsers as well. I don't need any tips on what browser I should use - I want you to note the site problems so you can fix them.

Browser Speed:

Speed tested with forum thread overview and a long thread:

Firefox 3.0.10       : Very slow, especially when scrolling through long threads with many messages.

Firefox 3.5b4        : Much faster than FF3, but still a bit jerky when compared to opera.

Opera 9.64           : Lightning fast.
 
Safari 4 ß (5528.17) : About as fast FF 3.5ß.

 

Insert/Edit Link Button:

Firefox 3.0.10       : Works

Firefox 3.5b4        : Works.

Opera 9.64           : Works
 
Safari 4 ß (5528.17) : Works as expected, but the create-link dialog cannot be closed and stays all the time. Also can't be moved.

 

HTML-Button:

Firefox 3.0.10       : Works

Firefox 3.5b4        : Works.

Opera 9.64           : Works
 
Safari 4 ß (5528.17) : Doesn't display the 'Update' and 'Cancel' buttons. Also can't be closed.

 

 

 

Quote Button:

Firefox 3.0.10       : Works

Firefox 3.5b4        : Works.

Opera 9.64           : Works
 
Safari 4 ß (5528.17) : No reaction at all.

 

 

 

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

Just one more thought :)  I tried using the web-developer extension to just disable the background image, and with that gone the page is fast, so there might be some optimizations you could make centered around just the background images.

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Colonel_Jessep, reply 22
... Maybe I'll try a clean installation on my other PC.

Please post anything you learn from the experiment. I've had the problem across multiple updates to Opera for which I chose the Upgrade option. Maybe a truly fresh install will do the job, but I really hate restoring my bookmarks & settings & whatnot. I'm awfully lazy...

 

Reply #29 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting epchris, reply 2
Created a quick greasemonkey script that removes a couple of the background images that slow down the page a lot for me.  For some reason it doesn't speed up page load time, but after the page is loaded, scrolling works great

http://www.staticmethod.net/greasemonkey/sinsforumcleaner.user.js

Requires Greasemonkey, at least version 0.5.0

Just removing certain pictures doesn't help.

I still maintain that firefox has problems rendering certain stylsheet methods. I noticed earlier that Firefox has acceptable speed when using default zoom. But increase by one zoom level and it slows down to a crawl.

Anyway, I reported this to the mozilla dev team as a bug. maybe the zoom feature needs some serious bugfixing. Opera handles it well, but so does firefox on websites other than stardock forums.

Reply #30 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting GW, reply 3

Quoting Colonel_Jessep, reply 22... Maybe I'll try a clean installation on my other PC.
Please post anything you learn from the experiment. I've had the problem across multiple updates to Opera for which I chose the Upgrade option. Maybe a truly fresh install will do the job, but I really hate restoring my bookmarks & settings & whatnot. I'm awfully lazy...

 

check out the xmarks plugin for firefox. saves your bookmarks online and synchronizes them over all computers with the xmarks plugin.

 

Reply #31 from Stardock Forums Top

We've done some compression and stronger caching on the images, hopefully this helps in decreasing load times.

Bara

Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Aroddo, reply 5
...check out the xmarks plugin for firefox. saves your bookmarks online and synchronizes them over all computers with the xmarks plugin. 

Thanks, but I'm trying to get back to Opera as my personal browser and IE and FF only when needed for work or for online transactions at sites that are not browser neutral.