On 12/29/12 3:28 PM, Paul Bergsagel wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> 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. >> > I do not experience any of the slowness you are describing. The w3.org > page opens within 2 to 5 seconds. I am running SeaMonkey 2.14 using > MacOS X 10.7.5 using a 24" iMac (late 2006) 2.16 core 2 duo processor. > > I do not believe it is a SeaMonkey rendering issue as my computer is not > the fastest model anymore and I do not see this slowdown you speak of. > > BTW you have tried rebooting your computer recently to see if this might > improve your speed ;) ? >
The problem with the W3C page is not how quickly it starts rendering. The problem is how long it takes to complete rendering. If I go to <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html>, the HTML file and associated CSS and other files download quickly. I see the beginning of the page in my browser window quite quickly. However, several seconds will elapse before I can scroll, launch a Find dialogue, or zoom the text. Once I zoom the text, I must again wait several seconds before I can scroll, launch a Find dialogue, or again zoom. I shut down my PC when I go to bed at night and whenever I leave the house. Thus, it is rebooted at least daily. I have observed the same slowness viewing the page as loaded from a local HTML file on my hard drive. I have also observed it with IE 7, which is why I now think this is a W3C problem. -- 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
