Is F-Chat Overworking Your PC?

Ad-Block and no-script are your friends.

 

I'm using Brave Browser with built in Adblock and other security features. Based on Chromium and superior to Chrome.

 

My life, my brain, my sanity, my time...yes. My PC...no.

 

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
the best there is. If you get Brave, you won't need an extension but with Chrome or Firefox ublock origin is the very best.

 

you can tell no scripts to allow exceptions for sites you trust.

 

I love noscript but I find it to be a little excessive sometimes

I don't mean to distract from the existing extensions, but these are the ones I'd suggest for chrome - mostly because they are significantly more popular and should be a little more user friendly

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/adblock-plus-free-ad-bloc/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb

It's only a matter of time until chrome gets rid of all these type of extensions, maybe brave is the next best choice

google already slows down youtube for users of adblock plus

 

Ferrari tax?

 

On my computer FChat works perfectly. The mobile version of the site has some problems like the search bar randomly deciding to not work, the reply box being often laggy and sometimes being unable to register inputs but just writing whatever I want to do so in my notes and pasting it here is alright. These are probably known issues only I face daily due to the fact that I hate Tapatalk but either way I can participate in the forum so not a big deal.

 

Ubuntu 22 LTS on computer and Android 12 on phone. Both using Firefox but I've tried Chrome too and the problem is present using it also.

 

My anecdotal contribution at non-subscriber level (I should change that) is no heavy load on my computer.

 

That’s something piggybacking, Fchat (the browser) itself should take a tiny amount of CPU resources, and memory. (On a mid range computer say 4 years old, if your running son something budget and 10 years old, YMMV, but then you would see it on all websites.)

 

I suspect nothing is wrong with your machine, it's just the ad load on a processor that can't cope with it. The CPU you have there is about 13 years old. Ads and the web are a lot more complex now than they were back then. Ad block is likely the easiest solution (reduce the amount of work you're asking the CPU to do) but a newer machine would likely feel like an F1 car by comparison.

 

I switched to brave browser after you mentioned it

It's fast! And many of my old extensions worked too, and I didn't need to install ublock origin, noscript, or adblock plus - all those features are built int

I will still keep using nextdns.io though, it's way faster to never load the ads in the first place, and preventing dns resolution of ad servers is a great start to kill the connection from even starting!