Well, I renamed my panacea.dat file, and that really sped things up.
Everything in mozilla is about twice as fast as it had been. From page
loads to mailnews performance to context menu opening. I opened my old
panacea.dat file and found it was huge, and contained a lot of
references to long since removed newsgroups, some other weird stuff, and
a lot more gibberish at the end of the file than at the end of the new
panacea.dat. I was going to wait to see if ditching the old panacea was
a solution to the other people cc'd to that bug before posting here.
Why hasn't this bozo tried a new profile before opening his big mouth
and criticizing mozilla so harshly? Well, when this first got
noticeable in JUNE I swear I did. Maybe it was a temporary bug in the
nightlies. After a while and no responses from the newsgroups to my
post about it, I just accepted that mozilla picked up a horrible
freezing problem...
Jay Garcia wrote:
> Ben Ruppel wrote:
>
>> Hey, thanks for the detailed info. I agree about IE's right clicking
>> problem.
>>
>> I am perplexed as to why I (and a couple of others) have the freeze
>> problem. Note that this problem begins before the page even starts
>> painting, it happens somewhere while the data is loading or around
>> that time.
>>
>> Granted I'm running a Celeron 550 with 256 megs of ram in win2k, but
>> when I look at task manager, total cpu usage never goes over 70%
>> during the freeze. I've tried erasing my profile info, thinking that
>> there was a deviant setting somewhere. What is your procedue when you
>> install a new nightly?
>>
>> I filed bug 91643 <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91643>
>> a while ago, and I'm trying to collect more info on the subject.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> DeMoN LaG wrote:
>>
>>> Ben Ruppel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on
>>> 31 Aug 2001:
>>>
>>>> Just curious, what are your system specs? What OS? To be
>>>> scientific, could you repeat the following with both IE6 and
>>>> Mozilla? It seems that some users just don't experience my
>>>> problems and I'd like to know why.
>>>> Open four or five browser windows. Click on a link in one window
>>>> and immediately go to another window and try scrolling, moving the
>>>> window, or any other operation. For me, all mozilla pages lock up
>>>> for at least a second while one page is loading content. IE6
>>>> doesn't do this.
>>>> That's the basis of my statement. Do you not get this result?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I run a Duron @ 800 mhz on an Abit K7T RAID. I have two harddrives,
>>> a 30 gig maxtor and a 6 gig quantum. Quantum is on IDE1, IDE2 has my
>>> CD and CDRW, IDE3 has my Maxtor. The system has 512 megs of RAM, and
>>> runs Windows 2000 and Linux Mandrake 8.1. Mozilla performs like shit
>>> in linux, due to me be completely unable to get X running with
>>> anything other than completely unaccelerated basic VGA display
>>> because for some reason it doesn't like my Kyro II card.
>>>
>>> I'll do that 6 windows in each thing right now:
>>> IE 6 final - Nothing out of the ordinary
>>> Mozilla Build 2001083003 - I am completely unable to reproduce what
>>> you described. At no point during any page load operations, or any
>>> operations that I can try, does Mozilla become completely
>>> unresponsive. I've seen the occasional big page lock up a Mozilla
>>> window while the page is reflowing and painting, but other Mozilla
>>> windows always remain responsive. Perhaps this is due to an 800 mhz
>>> duron with 512 megs of RAM and Windows 2000. Your milage may vary
>>> with a 450 mhz processor, 64 megs of RAM and Windows 9x. I do find
>>> that IE6 is slightly faster at displaying SOMETHING for me to look at
>>> while it's loading, but in overal load times I find Mozilla is
>>> quicker to get a full working page up in front of me. I've also
>>> found IE6's right click speed is horrible. Takes a good 1 or 2
>>> seconds for the menu to appear.
>>
>>
>
> Curious ...
>
> Have you tried booting clean with nothing else loaded/running other than
> what's necessary to maintain OS integrity and THEN loading/running
> Mozilla to see if you experience the same anomaly(s) ???
>
>
