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The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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446 points talboren | 4 comments | 27 Aug 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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zackmorris ◴[27 Aug 25 13:56 UTC] No.45039765[source]▶
GitHub moved to a JavaScript rendering mode almost as soon as Microsoft bought it. Previously, I had been able to browse it with JavaScript disabled on my 2011 Mac Mini which Apple stopped allowing upgrades on past macOS 10.13. So even if I enable JavaScript, I can no longer browse GitHub, because they didn't bother to make their build compatible with browser versions as old as mine.

It's hard to know which member of the duopoly is more guilty for breaking GitHub for me, but I find that blaming both often guarantees success.

I could like, buy a new computer and stuff. But you know, the whole Turing complete thing feels like a lie in the age of planned obsolescence. So web standards are too.

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1. shepherdjerred ◴[27 Aug 25 16:46 UTC] No.45042018[source]▶
Couldn’t you install Chrome or Firefox?
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2. ksherlock ◴[27 Aug 25 17:03 UTC] No.45042201[source]▶
Firefox 115 is the last version that runs on 10.12, 10.13, and 10.14 (also Windows 7 and 8). At this point 115 is 2 years old and GitHub is only tested on bleeding edge browsers, apparently.

So GitHub is usable but there are a number of UI layout issues and searching within a file is sometimes a mess (eg, highlighting the wrong text, rendering text incorrectly, etc. maybe that's true for all browsers. you're better off viewing a file as text in raw mode)

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3. jeroenhd ◴[28 Aug 25 09:49 UTC] No.45050281[source]▶
Does that change anything compared to running an old version of Safari that's also extremely slow because of a bug to boot? Modern websites are broken on abandoned browsers anyway, but if you install a less-abandoned browser you'll have a better experience on average.

Firefox doesn't work on Windows 7 anymore but installing Firefox is still a hell of a lot better than sticking to IE.

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4. ksherlock ◴[28 Aug 25 13:13 UTC] No.45051753{3}[source]▶
Github is completely unusable on old Safari so it changes everything.