NetSuite browser performance

Question

I'm helping someone work with NetSuite, and the client-side performance is not very good for functions that have a lot of client-side data. We're currently using Chrome Version 58, but have also tried Firefox.

The NetSuite browser client code is pretty heavy, and it downloads/caches a fair bit of data on occasion, which slows things down more on the client side (we've verified the slow-down is on the client, not the server and not in transit).

I was wondering if anyone new of extensions or techniques for optimizing Chrome or Firefox for situations like this, with sites/applications whose pages have a lot of code and a lot of data. We don't need to have a lot of tabs open, but if we could optimize memory and/or processing power and make as much as possible available to the browser in general, or to a specific window or tab, or to a specific page, that might help with performance.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Netsuite's user interface is pretty heavy by default. There are some things you can do to improve the overall response within Netsuite:

• Customize your list options to display a small number of results and with a minimum number of columns. For example, you could make your default Sales Order list view display only the orders from the past 3 months and limit only to show document number, amount and date.
• Customize your forms so the sublists and non essential fields are all moved to secondary subtabs. Example: You can move the item sublist on the Sales Order to a subtab that is not accessible unless you click on it. This way the UI won't load that list until you actually click on the subtab.
• Minimize the number of scripts running on the page. Do your best to de-bloat your Netsuite instance. You can use a free SuiteApp called Application Performance Management (APM) to identify which scripts are taking the most impact in the performance and then you could remove/disable unused bundles/scripts accordingly.

As to the browser, I tend to keep a bunch of tabs open so I have a Chrome extension called "The Great Suspender" to automatically suspend unused tabs and save some memory.