Slow Download button doesn't do anything

[Bouitaz]

On 11/21/2024 at 4:09 PM, brk279 said:

 

Well, the deploy date matters to me because that's when I started having the issue, the actual change may have been earlier but I wasn't affected by it.

Yes, very likely, especially considering the error I posted above.

I just wonder if it's possible to change it back into something more compatible.

It used to be that sites had fallback code to stable standards (W3C, not unstable google WHATWG) and for other browser engines, but as site devs continue to use almost exclusively google site frameworks one is forced into a monopoly of google chromium (and Rebuilds. And google dependent Firefox and Rebuilds. Those are the only two engines that sites even look at).

I'm using the latest versions of Pale Moon and Basilisk browsers myself. Since they're not dependent on google, they suffer a lot of false information being spread about it sadly.

[Bouitaz]

Still an issue. Can click on many image links and drop-down menus, but can't click on page numbers, apply filter, or slow download.

[Pickysaurus]

On 11/28/2024 at 7:13 PM, Bouitaz said:

Still an issue. Can click on many image links and drop-down menus, but can't click on page numbers, apply filter, or slow download.

Your log shows browser addons messing with the page. There's a good chance one of those is causing it. 

[Bouitaz]

5 hours ago, Pickysaurus said:

Your log shows browser addons messing with the page. There's a good chance one of those is causing it. 

Nope. I've also tested with a clean profile. Same thing. Button doesn't work. The PureURL addon affected one (premium download) worked both times. But I'm not a premium member, and will likely never be at this rate.. It also wouldn't affect the page number buttons, so that doesn't explain it all.

 

On 11/18/2024 at 9:59 AM, Pickysaurus said:

That website seems to be fairly snake-oil-y. If any of that is true it's either for good reason or it's the ads that do it rather than the website itself. Unfortunately, if you use addons or privacy settings that break the website we can't really help with that. It's completely your choice but we only have the developer resource to focus on the default setups for the most popular browsers. 

Calling The Markup snake-oily is rich, coming from Nexus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Markup?useskin=vector



If anything is breaking the site, it's this. When there's more ads and tracking code than actual site code..

[Pickysaurus]

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I'm using the latest versions of Pale Moon and Basilisk browsers myself. Since they're not dependent on google, they suffer a lot of false information being spread about it sadly.

If you're not using a supported browser I'm afraid I can't help you further other than pointing you back to the solutions I've already suggested. I would hope it'll work in the latest version of a supported browser. 

[brk279]

On 11/28/2024 at 9:13 PM, Bouitaz said:

Still an issue. Can click on many image links and drop-down menus, but can't click on page numbers, apply filter, or slow download.

Which browser are these from? I see the same errors in Firefox some of which I posted earlier, such as:

Uncaught TypeError: AbortSignal.timeout is not a function

but these ones seem to be coming from another script file (it was Contents/Scripts/BBoC-365d698bf2b50df99b993738c9d67fd9.js in my case as I posted). I think some parts of the code require a specific non-standard JS function(s) and only certain browsers are able to handle it and on other browsers it breaks and take some other parts of the code down with itself as well.

 

On 11/27/2024 at 3:29 PM, Bouitaz said:

It used to be that sites had fallback code to stable standards (W3C, not unstable google WHATWG) and for other browser engines, but as site devs continue to use almost exclusively google site frameworks one is forced into a monopoly of google chromium (and Rebuilds. And google dependent Firefox and Rebuilds. Those are the only two engines that sites even look at).

I'm using the latest versions of Pale Moon and Basilisk browsers myself. Since they're not dependent on google, they suffer a lot of false information being spread about it sadly.

 

Spoiler

Also poor software development practices have taken over everything. Everyone thinks that they can write code, most of these folk aren't CS graduates and have never taken a course on algorithm analysis in their life (their poor quality code can also be seen in mods too, which a lot of people willy-nilly stuff their games with). They rely on massive libraries full of unnecessary code just to do a simple thing. We used to run entire operating systems on 32MB or much less with more or less the same functionality as today, now people have 1000 times more memory but one browser tab takes 1GB of RAM,everything has become super bloated with garbage code, and this is happening on a gradually warming planet. Imagine the number of instructions a processor has to go through, just to round the edges of a button, imagine the environmental impact when it's done billions of times every single day. Google, Microsoft etc. contrary to what they claim, don't give a crap about environment, as if their bloated conventional software wasn't enough, they've now come up with the AI crap, which requires so much electricity dedicated power plants are now being planned to run it. Complete insanity.

/Rant

Edited Monday at 05:30 PM by brk279

[Bouitaz]

6 hours ago, brk279 said:

Which browser are these from?

 

They're from http://www.palemoon.org/

[Pickysaurus]

I've just tried it in Palemoon 33.4.1 and can confirm it doesn't work there. As I've said, we don't support this browser so there may be little we can do about it. You may want to report the issue to Palemoon so they can update it to support the latest web technologies. 

I will raise this with the team, but my recommendation is still to use a supported browser. The latest Firefox works in my testing. I even enabled the "Enhanced Protection" mode which normally breaks the site and was still able to download mods. If it's not working then it may be a problem beyond Firefox and could be caused by some other software on your PC. 

[Bouitaz]

9 hours ago, Pickysaurus said:

I've just tried it in Palemoon 33.4.1 and can confirm it doesn't work there. As I've said, we don't support this browser so there may be little we can do about it. You may want to report the issue to Palemoon so they can update it to support the latest web technologies. 

I will raise this with the team, but my recommendation is still to use a supported browser. The latest Firefox works in my testing. I even enabled the "Enhanced Protection" mode which normally breaks the site and was still able to download mods. If it's not working then it may be a problem beyond Firefox and could be caused by some other software on your PC. 

Thank you for at least testing and confirming the issue.

However, it's not up to browsers to always chase the latest google shiny experimental trends. That's still a google monopoly and bad development policies.
It used to be that good sites had fallback code and tested their sites to confirm working on just more than 1 & ½ browser engines.

I don't know if you remember the Internet Explorer days, and what happened to them vis a vis Anti-Trust. The same thing that's now happening to google..

Edited yesterday at 05:35 PM by Bouitaz