Whats your hardware? Are you running openbsd 6.1? I had alot of problems with my firefox and chrome a couple of months ago. (OpenBSD 6.0). I couldnt play videos on firefox. Not even youtube. I could play videos on iridium but i had to clear browsing data etc almost every day otherwise the browser was becoming slow. I send a couple emails to misc and some people suggested that the problems were due to my CPU (skylake) I uninstalled openBSD and installed it a couple of weeks ago. Most of the problems are solved although as far as i know OpenBSD still doesnt support skylake.
ps. I think openbsd should try to attract desktop users. In the long term it could lead to better hardware support. On 04/28/17 15:18, Jyri Hovila [iki.fi] wrote: > Dear everyone, > > I'm well aware of the bashing potential this message contains, and > kindly ask you not to resort to the usual "offence is the best defence" > strategy. I've been in the scene for a long time (you'll find my first > e-mails to this list almost two decades ago) and I'm well aware of how > operating systems and application software works. I do not need to be > educated about the basics of proper software design, nor the fact that > OpenBSD is developed with different goals in mind than all of the Linux > crap out there. > > With the above disclaimer said, and still knowing the potential for a > war, I must say this: There is not much hope for OpenBSD to ever become > a desktop (or laptop) OS if the nightmarish sluggishness of ALL modern > web browsers can not be solved. Even I, who can easily take long delays > etc. as the cost for having a much more secure system, am about to fry > my poor brain because even the few sites I need to use are just totally > unavailable if I browse them from OpenBSD. > > Everyday problems include (but are not limited to): Waiting tens of > seconds to several minutes for a script intensive site like Facebook > (yes, I actually need to use it) or LinkedIn to load. Having the whole > system slow down to a crawl while the browser is trying to do it's > stuff. Having the browser crash (without any error messages) several > times a day -- after I've first waited 30-60 seconds for it to become > responsive. > > Now I've spent lots and lots of time getting familiar with OpenBSD in > server environments, so I'm pretty well up to date with what I can do > to optimize the OS. I've been following the discussions that were > around six months ago or so, when there was a patch that relieved the > situation so that at least it became possible to finally watch YouTube > videos -- quite an achievement, considering that was in 2016 when > "everyone else" have had their videos running smoothly for at least a > decade. > > I am not blaming anyone here -- I rarely do. I'm not asking anyone to > just fix this issue for me. In fact, I don't even care if it gets fixed > or not; I can always do my browsing on some other platform, even if it > feels insanely stupid. What I am saying is what I already said: Unless > issues like this get solved, OpenBSD will remain pretty much as it is, > which is properly coded, very stable and secure, but (when it comes to > a "normal" user or even an experienced sysadmin) utterly useless when > it comes to doing the stuff everyone does these days -- browsing the > net. Yes, I know many of you are browsing the net with OpenBSD. So am > I. Just to make sure everyone understands what I mean: it is not that > it would be impossible, it is just insanely irritating and slow. > > Now, can anyone provide a relatively clear description of what it is > that make the same browsers (Firefox, Seamonkey, Chrome) that work > fine in Linux, Windows and OS X so ridiculously slow when they are > being run on OpenBSD? > > Peace, please. > > - Jyri >
