On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 01:41:45PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > Does anyone else find that Conkeror can be almost frustratingly slow > and sluggish at times? > > The things I notice most are: pages that take a while before either > the follow command can be called or even any links clicked with the > mouse; when it takes a long time between calling follow (pressing 'f') > and the links on a page being highlighted; lag and delay in the > minibuffer (I can often type a whole Google search term before the > typed characters appear in the minibuffer). > > The minibuffer slowness is probably the most frustrating. I'm using > history rather than bookmarks for minibuffer completion. I appreciate > that this is probably bound to be a lot slower, but it's almost > infinitely more useful. > > A potentially useful hack that I should have a go at is preventing it > from remembering lots of history items which are similar but for their > query strings (e.g. 20 entries for http://www.amazon.co.uk/?.... could > be reduced to just one). > > Is the root of the slowness the XULrunner/Gecko platform? I use > XULrunner 1.9.1.9-7 (packaged in Debian) and a recent git version of > Conkeror. I've noticed that if I run Conkeror in metacity (the GTK > window manager) it's slightly less sluggish than when I run it in > Fluxbox. > > Any similar experiences?
The first thing to try would be a new profile. To make a profile: conkeror -no-remote -ProfileManager To use the new profile: conkeror -no-remote -P foo The "-no-remote" switch is only needed if another instance of conkeror is running. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
