On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 05:36:16PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:26:37AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 05:06:42PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > > > > > > I have spent a pretty significant amount of time using webkit 1.4.1 and > > > > it is a major improvement over 1.4.0 however it still is in a pretty bad > > > > state. I have started working with the upstream folks to get some > > > > things resolved however doing anything webkit is painfully slow. > > > > > > > > I have run into are crashes, failure to render pages, resource > > > > starvation etc. > > > > > > > > I'd like to suggest we keep a 1.2.x around in addition to 1.4.x for a > > > > better browsing experience. 1.4.x will eventually get better but right > > > > now it is painful to use as a daily browser. > > There's no way we get back on that. Handling multiple versions of the > same port is a pita, we have enough bad experiences with that. Live with it. > > > > I use it daily without issues. Any particular sites or circumstances > > > that would help us reproduce the problems you are seeing? > > > > My current best theory is that the brand new link prefetch stuff (ugh!) > > is easting gobs of file descriptors while another site is loading. So > > when webkit tries to establish a connection to get like favicon or css > > it runs out and renders the pages sans css or favicon (missing pictures > > etc etc). The link prefetch can't be disabled since it doesn't have a > > knob. I am trying to reason with the webkit people (again) that > > anything prefetch is not really that great for everybody. > > Wasn't it the point of the code that was added in > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55973 ?
That is DNS prefetch. They added link prefetch in 1.4. > What are the other bug reports you opened upstream to solve those issues > ? So that we can track the discussion... I'll send those to you once I create them. I am trying to get some patches done first. Getting anything done in webkit takes months so we will miss release and ship a steaming pile hence me bringing this up.
