Since several weeks I often found a single click in a forum page executing two clicks, ending up in unwanted areas. Can somebody please fix this nasty behavior?
Since about yesterday I suspect that the New topics forum page remembers its last sort order. That's great because I use to sort new topics by Reply's and it speed things up if that sorting is done automatically. Great feature!
Another one is the repeated and time consuming download from Google fonts. Can this process be dropped by caching or a (settable) standard font?
I use my own shortcut to the New list sorted as I want it so have not noticed any change in behaviour. A quick experiment seems to show that it does not default to the last used sort order
How much time does the download of Google fonts take ?
Sorry, same as before for me... No sort order is kept when closing and re-opening the "New" page.
If you inspect HTML source of any forum page, you can find dozens of tags including Discourse things, Font Awesome (that isn't Google anyway), Google adwords, tag manager, analytics, and so on, a lot of Javascripts, but I can't find any time consuming font downloads (and even if it was, I think that'd be the last thing to be worried for...)!
There's just a CSS with "Open Sans" font, stored indide memory cache (so yes, it's cached) and Chrome DevTools says it required just 3ms to load.
Do you have any kind of information about why you think the fonts require much time to load?
PS: ever tried a different browser? What is your current one?
How did you test that?
If it's the global time to load the entire page, how can you say it's due to Google fonts?
The best way to dig into http communications is by using a tool like Chrome's DevTools (open the page to be tested, then press F12, select "Network" section then reload the page and you can see each item fetched together with timings).
Ok, I'm still convinced it isn't a problem for the forum but on your side, BTW try the F12 thing I suggested you before and track the network traffic. In case, make a screenshot and post it here.
Not a pretty clean system, don't you think? Ever tried Chromium and see if the problem still exists?
I cannot really interpret the data. Reloading this page takes about 36 seconds, with only ms of network transfer listed. Afterwards about 20 seconds with more (almost invisible) data transfers. The 10 seconds displayed transfer from fonts is listed with 3 ms for about 400 bytes. I.e. the network traffic is not what causes the long delay in loading pages.
The only major problem is the doubled mouse click, a neglectable problem the multiple Solution tags. The Solution tags also occur in Vivaldi on Windows.
There seems to be a somewhat serious problem with scripts in my Linux VM. Sometimes a popup asks to kill a never ending script, not only with the Arduino forum. I think that I should handle the forum in my host system, where I don't observe excess page load times.
Yep, it's kinda technical matter, sorry, I don't know your http knowledge but that's the best way to test page load and execution.
That's not good...
Sorry to read that. It could have something to do with installed browser extensions, try running firefox in safe mode and see what happens. Then try Chromium also.
If everything fails, try using the browser on host OS (?) where VirtualBox is running. If everithing is slow, I'd check external infrastructure, e.g. if you have a proxy, and check configured DNS also...
I don't understand that horrible diagnostics GUI. A screenshot of about 20 lines seems impossible, the timeline covers 60 seconds with millisecond transmissions every few seconds only. And that transfer from Google fonts is not listed anywhere.
For now it's sufficient to know that my VM has severe problems with scripts and I should use other ways to view the forum pages.
