Hey fediverse--
I recently made the switch from desktop Chrome to desktop #Firefox, which has mostly been fine, except for one problem:
Firefox stops bothering to answer AJAX requests in tabs pretty quickly, which makes my preferred webmail client--#Roundcube--FAR less functional under FF than it was under Chrome.
If left alone for a moment--or sometimes, even while typing an email--FF stops paying attention, further AJAX calls fail, and I'm forced to refresh the tab.
Anybody have any ideas?
belated note: I'm running Firefox on Ubuntu 26.04, using the default snap. (Pic related.)
I don't think the problem is localized there, though, because when I went a-web-searchin' I saw MANY similar complaints about Ajax and FF dating back nearly 20 years.
@oemb1905 thank you VERY much for that data point.
When I get a minute, I'll try installing the .deb version and see if it behaves better!
@oemb1905 just installed FF from Mozilla's own apt repository... which I was pleased and VERY surprised to discover actually overrode the snap, without me having to sort out which identical FF icon went to the snap version and which went to the newly installed version (which happens if you dpkg -i the raw deb, or install from tarball).
I'll update tomorrow whether this solves the problem or not; I should CERTAINLY know by then.
(Any interested onlookers, feel free to poke me if I forget.)
Jim Salter
Haack’s Networking
Ministerofimpediments