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Low priority: entire browser chugs when group chat is open

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In large group chats (I have no clue about smaller ones, I am only part of one and its fairly large), it will cause a severe frame drop in the UI navigation on not just the single tab or browser instance, but across multiple browser instances and only on desktop, and only on Firefox/waterfox. I have tested this on edge and the issue is not present. I have enabled hardware acceleration and this also does not resolve the problem. 

It also blasts one of my cpu threads to 100% and stays there, not that the cpu usage is a problem, its not, but primarily the UI elements and navigation across instances immediately chugs, and I have to close the group chat for it to resolve. On mobile this is not an issue, and on Edge, elevated cpu usage exists. 


ps. (I think this is similar to the issue with the chats I reported on earlier, which is resolved, however the theme selector lags, and certain active themes (frutiger aero max, 2000's retro, also lag when you are scrolling around, the other themes do not have this problem (retro canvas and AIM era which is extremely fast). 


Please let me know if you have any questions, I can provide more details if desired, thank you! 


My relevant specs are as follows:
CPU: i9 10980xe oc to 4.7 ghz

GPU: RTX 2080 TI

RAM: 128 gb DDR4 


Will look into this one, give me a couple hours if that's okay? ☺️ 

@Def3ct take your time! 

man I wish I had a large group chat

if this info is worth anything - 

for me, the entire site comes to a crawl on firefox especially in a group with 36 people.

I can still navigate most of the site fine but I almost can't even scroll in the group.

using chromium instead completely resolves the issue..

debian 13.5.0-amd64 Firefox ESR 140.12.0

@rillo


this is basically my issue to a T, glad to know its not OS specific, I should have mentioned that im on win 11 pro for workstations, and im sure someone running mac os will have the same issue, defo how firefox interacts with the site and how this site interacts with firefox

@rillo Second this! It seems like it might be a firefox specific problem. Which doesn't surprise me at all, I've seen things like this happen for firefox more than a few times!

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it does it with all firefox variations, too i.e. waterfox, seamonkey, tor, etc

Try DuckDuckGo maybe? Given that you’re all having issues with Firefox.

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This issue should be resolved now! In DM's and also groups.  =D

wow, that really loosened it up. thanks, buddy!  I'll put chromium away and report back should FF return to it's previous ways.

Its definitely better, second window instances do chug up just a bit, but honestly its a night and day difference. Cheers! 

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