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.
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.
@oemb1905 it's not server side because it's the same server, same network path, and same workstation on the client side as well. Literally the only change is the browser.
If you've got some other answer than ajax I'm listening, but to the best of my understanding ajax is the way RC keeps a live two-way connection going WITH the server.
What am I missing?
Jim Salter
Haack’s Networking