Word online very slow

olive · 2016-10-26 08:50:51

The online Microsoft apps (at least Word) (https://office.live.com/start/Word.aspx) are awfully slow, to the point of being almost unusable (often more than 10 or 20 seconds with a CPU core at 100%). This happens with both Chromium and Firefox (although it is slightly better with firefox). (Un)surprisingly, these problems do not appears on Windows 10 when it is reasonably smooth (tested with Edge and Chrome). My hardware is relatively recent (Ivy bridge Corei3 3240with 4gb of RAM). Has anyone else experienced this? The rendering and javascript engine should be the same with Chrome on Windows and Chromium under Archlinux, so that this puzzle me.

Updated: Spoofing the chromium user agent to pretend that I am using Chrome on Windows vastly improve the performance. Don't know if it is intentional from Microsoft but I question it...

Last edited by olive (2016-10-26 09:18:12)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-10-26 10:56:05

For the record, the site seems to work fine with an OpenBSD useragent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0

May be preferable if you want to fake it...

seth · 2016-10-26 18:35:01

MS probably abuses all linux clients to mine bitcoins :-P

ewaller · 2016-10-26 18:45:51

seth wrote:

MS probably abuses all linux clients to mine bitcoins :-P

Yeah, let's not go there -- we've no basis or proof. Even if it is a joke.
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