Re: [orca-list] Fast-moving Kickstarters stall Orca.

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi Jeffery.

Right now the page is quiet and from a quick glance I didn't see any
high-volume pages. That said, what you describe sounds like Orca
suffering from an event flood. Orca master has some event-flood
handling added to it. Is there any way you can test it?

Thanks!
--joanie

On Tue, 2021-06-29 at 16:30 +0000, Jeffery Mewtamer via orca-list
wrote:
> Okay, not sure if this is an Orca issue, a Firefox-ESR issue, or a
> I'm
> running a 32-bit kernel with 4GB of Ram and 2GB of swap issue, but
> when popular Kickstarters are in their First 48 or Final 48 when new
> pledges and increases in existing pledges are at their highest
> volume(and sometimes even during the mid-campaign dulldrums for
> really
> popular projects that are fast even at their slowest), Firefox and/or
> Orca are sluggish as [insert superlative here]. sometimes even
> freezing up for seconds at a time...
>
> I'm currently running Firefox-ESR 78.11 and Orca 40 sourced from
> Debian Unstable and Experimental respectively, but this issue has
> been
> present for several versions of both, and while Kickstarter is
> generally a buggy mess with tons of accessiblity issues, this is a
> case where it goes from annoying to almost makes reading pages
> impossible, never mind participating in the comments(On fast moving
> projects, I have to compose comments in Gmail compose message page
> otherwise my keyboard becomes non-responsive for several seconds
> every
> few typed words, and even then, copying the comment, switching to the
> Kickstarter tab, and pasting when the Kickstarter tab already has
> focus on the comment box can take a minute or more waiting for the
> sluggish page to respond).
>
> turning off JavaScript in about:config solves the sluggishness, but
> also prevents comments from loading, and is thus a non-solution.
>
> As I only have this problem with campaigns that are reciving high
> volumes of new pledges or pledge increases, and can hear Orca
> announcing x%, often in tandem with periods of freezing despite
> having
> live reagions set to off, I suspect the problem might be centered on
> where right below the level 2 heading with the project's name, the
> percent funded, backer count, and funding total are automatically
> updated without having to refresh the page.
>
> Here's a link to a just launched project that's currently suffering
> the issue so bad I can't even passively read comments without
> constant
> interruptions and it was a struggle just to bookmark the page:
>
> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printablescenery/hagglethorn-hollow-stl-files/comments
>
> Some aspects of the problem would require being logged in and having
> a
> pledge on the project in question, but in the worse cases, just
> scrolling through comments or the campaign page is like wading
> through
> molasses.
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