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Pervis: THIS WEBPAGE IS TAKING FOREVER TO LOAD! Pervis clicks refresh button the same instant the page loads CLICK Pervis’s spirit departs the body
uBlock Origin, basically doubles your computer’s speed.
So does having javascript disabled by default
So many sites are useless without JS though ☹️
And AI crawlers only made it worse, now every website either uses cloudflare or Anubis browser verification.
I love it when you go to click on a navigation button and as you do so, the page finally loads the styling and the button suddenly moves and you click on the wrong one.
is there an explanation for this? Is rendering broken and then fixed by hitting the reload button?
Sorta, generally it’s because the page is waiting for some element to load before it renders, and htting the refresh button interrupts that waiting, so the elements that have loaded all render while the refresh request is being sent.
So hitting the ‘stop’ button should give you a partial page, right? Good to know!
It sometimes will, yep! I’m obviously oversimplifying, it depends on the implementation of the “stop” button and the specific elements that are failing, but a surprisingly large percentage of the time It’ll work. It will also work to avoid some paywalls if you stop the page before they load in.
I’m so confused. Here in Firefox, the reload-button turns into the stop-button, while it’s loading. You cannot hit reload without hitting stop first. Are there browsers, which really keep these buttons separate?
Can’t remember on Firefox itself, but on the forks I use, Waterfox and Fennec, it’s possible to reload mid-load, on Waterfox with F5, Ctrl R, Ctrl Shift R and/or selecting the address and hitting enter, and on Fennec by using the dragging gesture for reloading until the reload icon appears.
Ah, right, I’m a dumbass. 🙃
I was just thinking of the GUI button, but yeah, of course you can hit the keyboard shortcut to trigger a reload right away…
Pretty sure what happened in the comic is that the page finally loaded right as he clicked reload, and then the last panel is his soul leaving his body at the sight of the blank, not-yet-at-all-loaded page.
