This seems to be another example of Mac Firefox (and I suspect Camino and SeaMonkey) behaving differently. I would be interested in the results of the following three experiments:
1. What happens if you use the signed rather than the unsigned applet? 2. What happens if you remove the javaembedding plugin files (Firefox>contents>MacOS>Plugins)? There are two: JavaEmbeddingPlugin and MRJplugin. Don't throw them away, since once removed manipulating the structure in the applet will be disabled. But does it affect the callback speed. 3. What happens if you use Firefox 4.0b3 to open the page? Phil Bays On Aug 16, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Alexander Rose wrote: > Hi, > > does someone else experience painfully slow callbacks in firefox on mac osx? > > http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/html/slow_callbacks.html > > I did some measurements. The numbers do very, but there is always a huge > difference between callbacks registered and not. > > Best > Alexander > > > The numbers: > > * Firefox 2.6.8 on Mac OSX 10.6.4: > > === NO CALLBACKS REGISTERED === > START load pdb: 3:10:09.660 > END load pdb: 3:10:10.155 > DURATION [495 ms]load pdb > START load append pdb: 3:10:10.158 > END load append pdb: 3:10:10.510 > DURATION [352 ms]load append pdb > > === CALLBACKS REGISTERED === > START load pdb: 3:10:10.652 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 > http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/data/1u19.pdb 1u19.pdb 1U19 null 3 1.1 > jmol_load_struct_callback: 3:10:19.638 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 1000001 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:10:19.705 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:10:19.763 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:10:19.821 > END load pdb: 3:10:19.857 > DURATION [9205 ms]load pdb > START load append pdb: 3:10:19.862 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 1 2 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:10:24.416 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 > http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/data/1u19.pdb 1u19.pdb 1U19 (modified) null 3 > 1.1 > jmol_load_struct_callback: 3:10:24.420 > END load append pdb: 3:10:24.423 > DURATION [4561 ms]load append pdb > > > > * Safari 5.0.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.4: > > === NO CALLBACKS REGISTERED === > START load pdb: 3:45:35.845 > END load pdb: 3:45:36.496 > DURATION [651 ms]load pdb > START load append pdb: 3:45:36.497 > END load append pdb: 3:45:36.734 > DURATION [237 ms]load append pdb > > === CALLBACKS REGISTERED === > START load pdb: 3:45:36.782 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:36.801 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:36.935 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 1000001 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:36.989 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 > http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/data/1u19.pdb 1u19.pdb 1U19 3 1.1 1.1 > jmol_load_struct_callback: 3:45:37.000 > END load pdb: 3:45:37.161 > DURATION [379 ms]load pdb > START load append pdb: 3:45:37.161 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 > http://weirdbyte.de/jmol-test/data/1u19.pdb 1u19.pdb 1U19 (modified) 3 1.1 2.1 > jmol_load_struct_callback: 3:45:37.230 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 1 2 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:37.360 > END load append pdb: 3:45:37.408 > DURATION [247 ms]load append pdb > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 0 1 1 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:37.430 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: jmolApplet0 -1 0 0 1000001 2000001 0 1 1 > jmol_anim_frame_callback: 3:45:37.437 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users J. Philip Bays Professor of Chemistry Department of Chemistry and Physics Saint Mary's College Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 284-4663 pb...@saintmarys.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users