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Michael Larabel
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Originally posted by Michael View PostLatest feature for premium users is that in place of the leaderboard ad on the site, now it will show articles coming up soon... Not advanced access to articles, but only article titles and the number of minutes (or hours) until they will go live on Phoronix. Just for times I write articles in advance of publishing and so to give premium users a heads up if some interesting content/reviews will be on later for checking back.
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Actually, as a non-premium user, this update was catastrophic. At least here in France, I'm almost not able to read Phoronix any more. On my firefox at home (firefox 24.1.0 on a plain up to date gentoo amd64), it just makes the browser hang, while at work on firefox at work (firefox 24.1.0 on windows 7) doesn't hang but takes ages to load the pages.
What happened?
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Originally posted by Vighy View PostActually, as a non-premium user, this update was catastrophic. At least here in France, I'm almost not able to read Phoronix any more. On my firefox at home (firefox 24.1.0 on a plain up to date gentoo amd64), it just makes the browser hang, while at work on firefox at work (firefox 24.1.0 on windows 7) doesn't hang but takes ages to load the pages.
What happened?Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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Working fine non-premium here in the US
Originally posted by Vighy View PostActually, as a non-premium user, this update was catastrophic. At least here in France, I'm almost not able to read Phoronix any more. On my firefox at home (firefox 24.1.0 on a plain up to date gentoo amd64), it just makes the browser hang, while at work on firefox at work (firefox 24.1.0 on windows 7) doesn't hang but takes ages to load the pages.
What happened?
See if some local French adserver is serving up bad code that hangs browsers. If it loads in France with adblock but not without, there is bad code being served locally, it needs to be identified. Hell, maybe the offending adserver would pay a reward if the bad code was itself found? Might save their business, they're toast if their partners all find they are being blocked this way,
I've seen a lot of pages on a lot of sites that load slow due to slow 3ed party content. One activist server with a lot of embedded Youtube content that fetched thumbnails from Youtube's servers loaded a hell of a lot faster on my machines after I started blocking Youtube and Google in non-Tor browsers as a security measure. That was even though not one of the videos was set to autostart. Adservers, indeed all embedded content, need to load their content quickly or else let the main site load first and then display as they manage to load.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostOkay, I made some more changes now... On next log-in should now last for entire calendar month while handling validation through other non-cookie measures to help RSS readers.Rob
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Originally posted by Luke View PostFirefox 24 on Ubuntu14.14 (alpha)/Cinnamon working just fine. There are reports of premium users seeing ads if not logged in via the forums, meaning they can load the site while considered standard users and also load the ads without hanging their browsers.
See if some local French adserver is serving up bad code that hangs browsers. If it loads in France with adblock but not without, there is bad code being served locally, it needs to be identified. Hell, maybe the offending adserver would pay a reward if the bad code was itself found? Might save their business, they're toast if their partners all find they are being blocked this way,
I've seen a lot of pages on a lot of sites that load slow due to slow 3ed party content. One activist server with a lot of embedded Youtube content that fetched thumbnails from Youtube's servers loaded a hell of a lot faster on my machines after I started blocking Youtube and Google in non-Tor browsers as a security measure. That was even though not one of the videos was set to autostart. Adservers, indeed all embedded content, need to load their content quickly or else let the main site load first and then display as they manage to load.
What could I check in my configuration? cookies? is there anywhere a timeout that blocks if, say, it cannot write the cookies, and then gives up after some time letting the browser load the rest of the content?
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I do not know the answer to that one.
Originally posted by Vighy View PostActually I guessed it, but even with adblock it takes ages to load. Let's say that the banner and the background are immediately visualized, but then it takes minutes for the rest. Even the internet connection can easily be ruled out, because at least at work it's super fast with very nice response times
What could I check in my configuration? cookies? is there anywhere a timeout that blocks if, say, it cannot write the cookies, and then gives up after some time letting the browser load the rest of the content?
With the adservers essentially ruled out as the issue, you will need to work with Michael to find the problem it seem, as if it changed with the site update some interaction between it and your configuration must be at issue.
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Originally posted by Vighy View PostActually I guessed it, but even with adblock it takes ages to load. Let's say that the banner and the background are immediately visualized, but then it takes minutes for the rest. Even the internet connection can easily be ruled out, because at least at work it's super fast with very nice response times
What could I check in my configuration? cookies? is there anywhere a timeout that blocks if, say, it cannot write the cookies, and then gives up after some time letting the browser load the rest of the content?Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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