Why are browsers so slow?
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Why are browsers so slow?
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#2"Why are browsers so slow?"
Site downloads almost 500KB of fonts.
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#3I don't have this problem, blank pages don't take "seconds" to load, even on my little atom-based tablet. The big question I have for people noticing this behavior is how many add-ons do they have. How many times is your "blank page" parsed by an enormous amount of code written in a language not known for its performance?
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#4> modern browsers are so stupid that they reload all the tabs when you restart them.
firefox does not do this.
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#5It's not easy to index all those GUIDs and have them updated live for NSA
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#6> modern browsers are so stupid that they reload all the tabs when you restart them. firefox does not do this.
Additionally, it's debateable whether that's a bad default to begin with.
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#7"Why are browsers so slow?" Site downloads almost 500KB of fonts.
THIS. If you want a fast website, remove all JS and make everything simple. For maximum performance put the static site on a CDN. It isn't hard.
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#8"Why are browsers so slow?" Site downloads almost 500KB of fonts.
"Safari may take a second or two just to open a new blank tab on a 2014 iMac."
He's not (just) talking about the slowness of websites, but of browsers themselves.
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#9I don't have this problem, blank pages don't take "seconds" to load, even on my little atom-based tablet. The big question I have for people noticing this behavior is how many add-ons do they have. How many times is your "blank page" parsed by an enormous amount of code written in a language not known for its performance?
If your browser is designed from the ground up to support add-ons, but can't handle a couple of them without slowing to a crawl, your browser sucks. Don't blame the user for a problem with the software.
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#10Agreed, I have about 8GB of pages open right now not doing anything. Many computers don't have that much total ram. I think it's time to have per tab resource throttling. For example if a page uses over a certain amount of
. compute resources, the cpu cycles allowed in the next epoch are halved
. RAM it's memory accesses per second are halved in the next epoch
. network traffic it's kB/s are halved in the next epoch
This would allow all pages to still work but the resource intensive ones would be flagged quickly by users and developers.