Having CPU spikes... from Lowes.com? Can anyone else replicate this?

samteezy

Okay, folks, hear me out.

Anytime I visit Lowes.com, search for products, and visit product pages, my system hangs. Depending on the browser I can click the close tab button, wait a minute or more, and eventually it'll catch up. Sometimes I have to forcibly power down and reboot.

Here's what's weirder - this happens across the board in Firefox, Chrome, and the Chromium flatpak. Every one of them. FF has uBlock Origin and Tracking Protection on; the others have no script blocking.

I found a FF extension to block javascript entirely for a domain, and while of course I don't have the issue anymore it renders the Lowes.com website practically unusable.

Wondering if this is a Linux thing, a Solus thing, or something more local to my machine entirely. Scratching my head over here.

Home Depot doesn't have this issue 😉

tomscharbach

samteezy I've been unable to replicate the issue this morning, in each case using Mircosoft Edge, on (1) Solus Plasma (desktop and laptop), (2) Solus Budgie (desktop), and (3) W11 (desktop and laptop).

I remember a hang on Lowe's sometime back (almost certainly on my Windows desktop), but I can't replicate it today, and I don't visit the Lowe's site often enough to see a pattern (the nearest Lowe's is 45 miles away, so I use Home Depot (local) or Menards (15 miles away).

I suspect that it is a Lowe's thing, not a Linux thing or a Solus thing, because you are not reporting the issue more generally. Your post suggests that the issue might be related to javascript, and if so, that points to deficient javascript coding on the Lowe's website or perhaps a server issue on Lowe's side.

samteezy

tomscharbach Thanks for checking. Just curious, did you go to an actual product listing? I didn't run into the issue until I was viewing products (too many bathroom faucet options to choose from...)
I downloaded Bodhi and spun up a quick VM, and was able to replicate the issue in there too. But not on my iPhone.
I assume that if Lowe's site worked like this for Windows and Mac machines, they would have caught and corrected it. So it makes me wonder if it's something about how Linux ends up handling certain javascript...?

tomscharbach

samteezy Just curious, did you go to an actual product listing?

I searched for "air hose fittings", went to the page on which the fittings were listed, and clicked on the Kobalt 3/8" hose repair kit to get to the product.

samteezy I assume that if Lowe's site worked like this for Windows and Mac machines, they would have caught and corrected it. So it makes me wonder if it's something about how Linux ends up handling certain javascript...?

I just don't know. I do know that the Lowe's website seems sluggish in comparison to Home Depot or Menards, but that might be due to almost anything or just a faulty perception on my part.

Staudey Using Firefox, the site started misbehaving for me after a while ...

I've got the Lowe's site open on my Plasma desktop, so I'll hop around the site for a while and see if I run into problems.

brent

Staudey you got it methinks: browsers not necessarily the factor. but a browser's extensions, internal settings, how api/java handled etc etc etc.
samteezy I can't think of a gigantic corporation web page (home depot walmart etc etc) that had a perfect online experience. I've never had everything (content) load etc and some days sluggish is the norm. Sluggishness to me is often cured by deleting all cookies/cache and relaunching browser. Don't think it's Solus at all. I thinks its lowes imho.

tomscharbach I just don't know. I do know that the Lowe's website seems sluggish in comparison to Home Depot or Menards, but that might be due to almost anything or just a faulty perception on my part.

at the end of the day^^ this.

Staudey

Using Firefox, the site started misbehaving for me after a while, giving me access errors (maybe because of my AdBlocker, or because I access it from Europe?), but for the time I could use it, it worked fine, if a bit slow and clunky.

tomscharbach

tomscharbach I've got the Lowe's site open on my Plasma desktop, so I'll hop around the site for a while and see if I run into problems.

For what it is worth, I couldn't get the Lowe's site to hang or freeze, although it seemed to get more and more sluggish as I went along, and toward the end it might as well hung for all practical purposes. I explored "storage containers", clicking the different size and color options and looking at various items, and then went to "tools", repeating the process, until I finally couldn't stand it any more. Toward the end, I would click an options box and wait 30 seconds or more for the list to begin refreshing with the new option. But I never got it to hang or entirely freeze up.

Edit/Update: Apparently we are not alone in having issues. The comments in the thread (roughly 100) strongly suggest that the problem is with the Lowe's website and that the problem may have intensified during the last month or so.

Axios

Usually when a site gets sluggish its because something you are filtering in browser
I tested with firefox which I have filtering it was sluggish and almost unusable sooo I started testing
disabling stuff and when I got to site analytics 3 trackers in ghostery,69 things in ublock and disabled site Analytics filtering everything was fine with the website. I am not really sure with browsers and all there built in stuffs anymore.
So probably way the website is designed Is my guess they dont want you filtering anything or poor design.
Home depot was fine with all filtering in place
Was fine with Ungoogled chromium ( I have no filtering set up on it)

Just my 2 pennies..lol (Oh using win7)

2nd test shutdown restart of firefox site started out ok got slower and slower trusted the site in ghostery
(left ublock alone) and reloaded page poof everything is fast again browsing around.
( Pretty much along the lines brent was saying)
Lowes sux anymore I use Home depot..