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Author: Antonio A. Rendina
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] basilisk browser hangs
On 06/09/21 21:48, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 06:35:00PM +0200, al3xu5 wrote:
>> Mon, 6 Sep 2021 09:00:52 -0400 - Haines Brown <haines@???>:
>>
>>> I've happily run the basilisk browser for a couple years, but recently
>>> it bagan to hang. On sites that are more demanding such as Amazon and
>>> eBay. When I do things there's a hang that lasts perhaps a minute.
>
>> Hi Haines
>>
>> It seems to me that you are assuming that the problem is linked to the
>> system software environment, but this does not seem to be proven.
>>
>> First of all: have you tried using other browser than Basilisk? Same
>> hanging with Firefox etc.?
>
> Yes. I run Firefox ESR as well and it does not see to have
> problems. Not sure what this implies about TSL certificates.
>
>> I don't know if Basilisk has some developer tools like Firefox or Chrome
>> (in Firefox-like browsers it is at the >Tools>Web Developer>Network menu or
>> Ctrl+Shist+E).
>> If Basilisk has this kind of tools, then you can use it to check if the
>> freezes during the loading of the pages is due to network-related
>> problems, even identifying the specific cause.
>
> That I tend to remove the memu keeps me from exploring its
> possiblities. I ran Network when accessing an eBay operation, and
> don't know how to interpret the result. One thing is that loading a
> gif image under show_ads.js tool took 163095650171... ms (ran out of
> space to display following numbers). But its status code is green OK.
> The x-xss-protection "1; mode=block" Request headers (3.157 KB) No
> idea how to interpret all this.
>
> My AdBlock Latitude is disabled.
>


Did you try to check operating system resources when the problem
happens? What the system is doing? How is the cpu, memory, drive, network?