Craig, James \(IT\);249801 Wrote: > > Hi Michael, I've been meaning to say for a while, I find the new web > interface incredibly slow. > I'm running from SVN on Windows XP, Firefox 2. > > Firstly, It takes almost a minute to fully load. > Secondly, I have observed that if I open two tabs in Firefox, one with > the default page, the other with any other website, when the > SqueezeCentre tab is active (but fully loaded and doing nothing), > Firefox uses 100% CPU time. Switch to the other tab and CPU usage > disappears. Back to SC, CPU back to 100% >
If I've had the 100% CPU problem, I haven't really noticed it. But the New Default skin does seem quite slow at times. Very often I have to wait a few seconds after a frame loads before Firefox (1.5, old but still supported by the vendor, Ubuntu release) will highlight lines I mouse over, etc. I've been halfway planning on swtching to /Classic once I jump to 7.x fulltime. Another unrelated New Default comment: especially on short item names, there's a lot of blank horizontal space between item name and the small Add/Play/etc. icons. It's sometimes a hassle to mouseover the item and then slide right to the icon -- it's easiest to select an item by mousing over the text, and then I often (esp. with a built-in laptop pointing device) drift a few pixels up or down and suddenly I'm highlighting a different line. Have you looked at maybe making the icons appear on the left? That should help with my "vertical drift" problem, and you'd also benefit -- at least when the user's browser is fullscreen -- from the fact that it's easier to mouse to a spot along the edge of the screen than in the middle (it's easier and faster still to mouse to one of the 4 corners, but that's not relevant here). -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41142 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
