Jim Salter12h ago

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?

Show threadJim Salter12h ago

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.

Show threadJim Salter12h ago

On a suggestion from someone who says they have no issues with Roundcube under Debian FF ESR, I tried installing from Mozilla's Apt repository.

No obvious change, sadly. Still gets stuck on "refreshing" and fails to update.

Show threadjer12h ago
@jimsalter I would look in the web inspector and see what happens when it tries to make that request. It will show an error that may or may not be useful. I suspect that their auto refresh mechanism first calls some kind of analytics request first, and Firefox is blocking that for tracking protection.
Show threadJim Salter11h ago
@nyquildotorg these are the warnings I'm seeing. Not seeing anything labeled an "error."
Show threadjer
@jimsalter can you switch to the Network tab and then reload the page? What I'm talking about is an error returned by a request, not logged to console
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