# Firefox and IE performance with Rails App

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firefox-and-ie-performance-with-rails-app/69333>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 16, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firefox-and-ie-performance-with-rails-app/69333 "2006-02-16T18:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giaco)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firefox-and-ie-performance-with-rails-app/69333/1 "2006-02-16T18:56:48Z")

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In my rails application, certain computers were having huge problems.  
There were certain pages that were exceptionally slow, even to the point  
of timing out. Other computers did not have a problem. I finally found  
that Firefox was the difference. When using Firefox on those computers  
it works fine. The slow pages were typically posting a form with a  
couple hundred fields.

This behavior was the same with the rails server running on Windows,  
Ruby 1.8.2, Apache2, FastCGI and also on Linux, Ruby 1.8.4, Lighttpd,  
FastCGI.

Any ideas what would cause this?

–  
Jack C.  
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**Author:** ![giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giaco)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firefox-and-ie-performance-with-rails-app/69333/2 "2006-02-16T19:48:15Z")

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> . The slow pages were typically posting a form with a  
> couple hundred fields.  
> [hylesanderson.com](http://hylesanderson.com)
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> removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
> [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails)

What??? a couple of hundred fields???

Im not surprised if IE breaks on this…

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**Author:** ![giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giaco)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firefox-and-ie-performance-with-rails-app/69333/3 "2006-02-16T20:15:35Z")

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- Jake J. (removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid) [060216 13:57]:

> > What??? a couple of hundred fields???
> > 
> > Im not surprised if IE breaks on this…
> 
> He must be working with the IRS to do online tax form submission.

Nah, probably just the symptoms checklist on the IE “report bug” form.

_ducks_

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**Author:** ![giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giaco)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firefox-and-ie-performance-with-rails-app/69333/4 "2006-02-16T20:51:48Z")

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**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firefox-and-ie-performance-with-rails-app/69333/5 "2006-02-16T19:54:24Z")

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Mikkel B. wrote:

> > . The slow pages were typically posting a form with a  
> > couple hundred fields.  
> > [hylesanderson.com](http://hylesanderson.com)
> 
> What??? a couple of hundred fields???
> 
> Im not surprised if IE breaks on this…

He must be working with the IRS to do online tax form submission.

Jake

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**Author:** ![giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@giaco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/giaco)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/firefox-and-ie-performance-with-rails-app/69333/6 "2006-02-17T16:38:22Z")

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On 16 Feb 2006, at 20:48, Jack C. wrote:

> It does seem quite possible that this is the cause – but the  
> fields only contain at most 3 letters. Combine that with the  
> overhead of the field names and it still should only be posting  
> 4-5KB. I would have hoped IE could handle that.

You’re confusing reading a file and rendering it. Indeed the file is  
at most 4-5 KB, but the amount of rendering and handling events  
(input, ?) from the fields is quite intensive. Clearly IE has  
problems with this.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt