On 12/29/12 10:52 AM, Iceman wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:37:38 -0800, David E. Ross wrote in message > <news:[email protected]>: > >> I have been observing two different ways in which SeaMonkey seems slow. >> >> When I launch SeaMonkey, my home page is my exported bookmarks.html file >> on my local hard drive. I see this home page almost immediately. >> However, I cannot scroll, launch a Find dialogue popup, select anything >> from the menu bar, select any button on a tool bar, or resize the >> browser window for several seconds. I just now timed it at 8 wall-clock >> seconds after the window appeared. I disconnected from the Internet and >> still timed it at 8 seconds, so it is not a case of SeaMonkey accessing >> the Internet. >> >> The second slowness affects rendering. It is most noticeable at >> <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html>, Section 8 of the W3C's HTML5 >> Candidate Recommendation specification. This is not an issue with >> downloading. I downloaded the HTML file in 1-2 seconds. This is >> definitely a rendering issue, seen (1) if I zoom the text and (2) when I >> load into SeaMonkey the downloaded HTML file from my hard drive. This >> is most likely a Core problem; since I use SeaMonkey as my only browser, >> I am reporting the problem here. > > Yes, it could be a Core problem, or a system resources problem, or a video > drivers problem. But since you offer no comparison, i.e. how the page > behaves in other browsers, then this may not be a SeaMonkey issue. >
The second problem -- slow rendering -- appears to be a problem with either the Web page or my hardware. I see a similar problem with IE 7. I will contact W3C to find out what they might say about it. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Are taxes too high in the U.S.? Check the bar graph at <http://www.rossde.com/taxes/trickling.html> to see. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
