The in-game web browser is very slow or doesn't load any URLs

[NJMike]

Some SL-URLs that I open up within the in-game browser either take an extremely long time to load, or never load at all. Sometimes too if it does load, after a minute or so all the content from the website just disappears in the browser and I have to refresh the page to get everything back up again. I can access these SL-URLs in Google Chrome just fine, but the in-game brower is just awfully slow sometimes.

Also, the marketplace never loads on the in-game browser or Google Chome, but it loads in FireFox fine -- any help?

[Charolotte Caxton]

You can choose to have your web pages open using your own browser, you don't have to use the inworld browser.

[Griffin Ceawlin]

Yeah... That's why nobody uses it.

[Void Singer]

several of those pages require javascript, cookies, AND plugins to be enabled... search and the home tab both require all three now... so if you have any of those disabled in preferences, that's why they don't work.

even without that though I agree it's still rather slow and the webkit parser doesn't obey some standards (like defer attributes in script tags)

[NJMike]

So no one really uses the in-game browser? I just thought it was more convenient and wanted to try and see if I could get it to speed up but if you say use the browsers instead then alright.

[Charolotte Caxton]

Well, sometimes it might be kinda convenient, like if someone posts a link for you to take a look at in open chat or something and you just wanna take a quick look, cause even when it loads alright, the window still needs to be stretched out to look at the content.

[Griffin Ceawlin]

I don't know that anyone that I know in SL uses it. Even for the brief time that I gave Viewer 2 a try, I couldn't rely on it to bring up web profiles, and so opened them up in Firefox instead.

This isn't a problem that only SLs in-game browser has. EVE Online, which I've played while on hiatus from SL, had the same kinds of issues. Noone there used that one, either. :smileyvery-happy:

[Cerise1488303085]

Hi, I get much better performance from the internal browsers if I reduce the debug setting PluginInstancesCPULimit to about 0.5, I think the default is 0.9. This tells SLPlugin to run at a lower priority, so that the viewer gets an opportunity to communicate with it. I have seen this change help on Windows and Mac, I don't know if it would have the same effect on Linux but I suspect it could.

[Charolotte Caxton]

Oh, as for viewing profiles, yes. I use V2 and that's a lot better than if I had to use my own browser outside of SL to look at those, so in that respect yes it is more convenient.