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Subject: A little off topic: Firefox and Bungie.net
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ya dude, firefox scans every image when it download, & bungie.net has no blank areas, it's all pixels :p so it's laggy on my firefox too..scrolling sux also

  • 03.24.2005 8:56 AM PDT
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firefox seems slower with this sight than IE on this computer.

  • 03.24.2005 8:56 AM PDT
Subject: A little off topic: Firefox and Bungie.net
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Anyone using Firefox to you see the menus on the Bungie site react slowly with your Firefox browser mine does and I was just curious if it was my computer or the browser.

  • 03.24.2005 7:11 AM PDT
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My connection at this site is always slow.

  • 03.24.2005 9:55 AM PDT

Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

1. The Gecko renderer (the one in Firefox/Netscape) is generally much slower than the one IE, and the scrolling thing is a known issue with a certain stylesheet/image background construct that we use.
2. The bar at the bottom isn't silly, it happens to be the only navigation to other areas of the
site. If you're not using it, you're probably missing quite a lot.
3. There are 8 webservers, several SQL server, and gobs of bandwidth. Throwing more hardware at a problem is irresponsible before fixing any software glitches.
4. The forums deliberately delay posts to allow the caching to work. Deal with it, it is by design.
5. The Linux comment shows you have little knowledge of what you're talking about. Apache is a great web server - but so is IIS6. In our case, the .NET framework than only IIS6 provides is the best choice for our infrastructure - with little overhead. We've tried Apache/Perl in the past. It didn't scale for our needs.

Posted by: Kaptain
I've noticed that the Bungie.net webpages load VERY slowly in Firefox on slower computers. I have to use my 3GHz desktop to view the forums at any decent speed at all. On my 1GHz laptop, they crawl. Part of it has to do with the silly bar across the bottom of the screen. If Bungie were to get rid of that and make the pages easier to load, the site would be a lot faster.

As to posts being slow to appear, that's not your computer doing that - it's Bungie's overloade forum servers being slow and laggy. Bungie needs more bandwidth and faster servers - surely Microsoft can do something about that for them? Or maybe they need to get Linux servers...those are usually faster anyway - less overhead.


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  • 03.24.2005 11:11 AM PDT
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ya my firefox is laggy like hell too on bnet....i guess ill just use opera for it until the problem is fixed or whatever(i try not to use IE ever)...i have the tabbrowser extension also

  • 03.25.2005 9:40 AM PDT
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Anyone using Firefox to you see the menus on the Bungie site react slowly with your Firefox browser mine does and I was just curious if it was my computer or the browser
no but check this out
needler song

  • 03.26.2005 5:53 PM PDT
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whats firefox is it a fox on fire?

  • 03.26.2005 6:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: wyld kard ace 8
whats firefox is it a fox on fire?

It's a browser, like Internet Explorer, only it's better in some cases.

  • 03.26.2005 6:35 PM PDT
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Yeah mozilla seems to be extremly slow with this site.

I normally switch to IE for this site, But i guess its mozillas fault ive noticed a couple of sites have stopped working so well since it got updated.

  • 03.28.2005 1:16 AM PDT
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The scrolling using firefox is really laggy

  • 03.28.2005 9:08 AM PDT

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