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? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London JID: [email protected] http://www.richardlewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +----------------------------------------------+ | Support open access to scholarship | | http://freeculture.org/ http://www.doaj.org/ | +----------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
