i have been having this problem for a few weeks now. when too many complex tracks are requested (either by me by mistake or by the previous unknown user on genome-test), it overloads the display capacity of the browser and indeed freezes firefox for ten minutes or so until it is finally able to load. and this is with a fairly good internet connection.
the culprit is all these too-complicated, too-many chip-chip encode type tracks as well as mRNA and EST tracks with many hundreds of entries. there is no real user escape because even if the tab is closed, the browser will bomb over and over again until someone happens to leave it in a configuration with fewer troublesome tracks displayed. this is happening both on human and drosophila. it just tied up my web browser for 15 minutes because someone left all the chip-chip tracks open in drosophila. this really needs to be addressed -- it is unacceptable performance, unavoidable, and unpredictable. the user might have a dozen other job tabs open and not want to force web browser to quit. _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
