JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google

Re:JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google by OrderlyTiamat on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:17PM (#18350402)

He's not the only one. It's a recurring comment here on hacker news and a problem I've encountered as well, and I'm running the latest stable release.

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Re:JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google by allenz on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:38PM (#18351071)

Same here, I run the latest Firefox on both Windows and Linux. Gmail always takes at least 5 seconds to load.

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Re:JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google by cpeterso on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:06AM (#18352065)

If you experience a reproducible Firefox performance problem, please consider using the Firefox profiler add-on [1] to record a profile and file a bug with "[qf]" to the whiteboard field. These "[qf]" Firefox performance bugs get reviewed by engineers twice a week. Having a profile makes the bugs much easier to diagnose.

[1] https://perf-html.io/docs/#/

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Re:JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google by rtpg on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:12PM (#18351192)

I think that Chrome also suffers on this front? But it's better at doing pre-fetching than Firefox is

This could really just be that part. I have a hard time imagining explicit sabotage of FF on the gmail frontend. The likeliest explanation is that perf testing and the like only happens in Chrome

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Re:JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google by asdfasgasdgasdg on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:11PM (#18351187)

The classic question to ask at this point is whether this affects you with a fresh install, or only once you have added all your extensions?

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