Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-08-27 Thread GérardJan
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 7/11/2017 8:18 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Anyone here not using or spoofing Firefox able to get through, or is that the key? Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.46 "Advertise

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-12 Thread Ed Mullen
On 7/12/17 at 8:43 PM, Ed Mullen's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: On 7/12/17 at 2:26 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Ed Mullen wrote: On 7/11/17 at 6:49 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Ed Mullen

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-12 Thread Ed Mullen
On 7/12/17 at 2:26 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Ed Mullen wrote: On 7/11/17 at 6:49 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Ed Mullen wrote: All of those links open so fast I can't count. But, then again:

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-12 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/12/2017 11:16 AM, mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: > Ed Mullen wrote: >> On 7/11/17 at 11:18 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired >> off with great aplomb: >>> Hank wrote: >>> I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www. before speedtest it

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-12 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Ed Mullen wrote: On 7/11/17 at 6:49 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Ed Mullen wrote: All of those links open so fast I can't count. But, then again: How'd you do that? Xfinity absolutely refuses

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-12 Thread mozilla-lists . mbourne
Ed Mullen wrote: On 7/11/17 at 11:18 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Hank wrote: I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www. before speedtest it is blocked. I see that your user agent does not contain a reference to SeaMonkey:

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-12 Thread Ed Mullen
On 7/11/17 at 11:18 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Hank wrote: I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www. before speedtest it is blocked. I see that your user agent does not contain a reference to SeaMonkey: User-Agent:

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-12 Thread Ed Mullen
On 7/11/17 at 6:49 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: Ed Mullen wrote: All of those links open so fast I can't count. But, then again: How'd you do that? Xfinity absolutely refuses to cooperate with

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-12 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
David E. Ross wrote: On 7/11/2017 8:18 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Anyone here not using or spoofing Firefox able to get through, or is that the key? Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.46 "Advertise Firefox compatibility"

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/11/2017 8:18 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > Hank wrote: > >> I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www. before >> speedtest it is blocked. > > I see that your user agent does not contain a reference to SeaMonkey: > > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Felix Miata
Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-07-11 23:18 (UTC-0400): > Hank wrote: >> I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www. before >> speedtest it is blocked. > I see that your user agent does not contain a reference to SeaMonkey: > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1;

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Hank wrote: I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www. before speedtest it is blocked. I see that your user agent does not contain a reference to SeaMonkey: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0 Anyone here not using or

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Hank
Original Message On 7/11/2017 6:25 PM, Hank wrote: I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www. before speedtest it is blocked. Trimmed http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ Advanced Settings allows multiple Host locations to be selected and the Host is

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/11/2017 6:25 PM, Hank wrote: > I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www. before > speedtest it is blocked. A DNS lookup on www.speedtest.xfinity.com yields the following: > [Start Query] > Looking up [www.speedtest.xfinity.com] > Error getting host address: > No such

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Hank
I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www. before speedtest it is blocked. Original Message David E. Ross wrote: On 7/11/2017 3:49 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Ed Mullen wrote: All of those links open so fast I can't count. But, then again:

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
David E. Ross wrote: On 7/11/2017 3:49 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Ed Mullen wrote: All of those links open so fast I can't count. But, then again: How'd you do that? Xfinity absolutely refuses to cooperate with me -- won't show

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/11/2017 3:49 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > Ed Mullen wrote: > >> All of those links open so fast I can't count. >> >> But, then again: >> >> > > How'd you do that? Xfinity absolutely refuses to cooperate with me -- > won't show your

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Ed Mullen wrote: All of those links open so fast I can't count. But, then again: How'd you do that? Xfinity absolutely refuses to cooperate with me -- won't show your results, won't run tests -- because I'm not using one of their

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Lee wrote: I'm advocating that people do the test on their system & pick whichever way works best for them. I can get on board with that. In fact, it's a pretty good summary of my position. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Lee
On 7/11/17, Ed Mullen wrote: > On 7/10/17 at 4:32 PM, Lee's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: >> On 7/10/17, meagain wrote: >>> On 6/21/2017 8:59 PM, Ed Mullen wrote: If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a browser

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Lee
On 7/11/17, Glen via support-seamonkey wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> Lee wrote: >> >>> On 7/10/17, Paul B. Gallagher >>> wrote: Lee wrote: > I was really hoping to skip the discussion of exactly what >

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Ed Mullen
On 7/10/17 at 4:32 PM, Lee's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: On 7/10/17, meagain wrote: On 6/21/2017 8:59 PM, Ed Mullen wrote: If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a browser cache. Disable it. Interesting and clearly true, but I had never heard

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-11 Thread Glen via support-seamonkey
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Lee wrote: On 7/10/17, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Lee wrote: I was really hoping to skip the discussion of exactly what "little benefit" means & go straight to how to decide _for yourself_ if disabling cache is a Good Idea or no.

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-10 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Lee wrote: On 7/10/17, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Lee wrote: I was really hoping to skip the discussion of exactly what "little benefit" means & go straight to how to decide _for yourself_ if disabling cache is a Good Idea or no. Fine. Try it, and if you like

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-10 Thread Lee
On 7/10/17, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > Lee wrote: > >> I was really hoping to skip the discussion of exactly what "little >> benefit" means & go straight to how to decide _for yourself_ if >> disabling cache is a Good Idea or no. > > Fine. Try it, and if you like

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-10 Thread David E. Ross
On 7/10/2017 7:57 PM, Lee wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On 7/10/17, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> Lee wrote: >> >>> ... >>> >>> downloading 500KB instead of 2.5MB is not my definition of "little >>> benefit" >> >> Depends a lot on your connection speed. > > I was really

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-10 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Lee wrote: I was really hoping to skip the discussion of exactly what "little benefit" means & go straight to how to decide _for yourself_ if disabling cache is a Good Idea or no. Fine. Try it, and if you like it better, stick with it. If not, revert. That's how I'd decide. With all the

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-10 Thread Lee
Hi Paul, On 7/10/17, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > Lee wrote: > >> ... >> >> downloading 500KB instead of 2.5MB is not my definition of "little >> benefit" > > Depends a lot on your connection speed. I was really hoping to skip the discussion of exactly what "little

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-10 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Lee wrote: ... downloading 500KB instead of 2.5MB is not my definition of "little benefit" Depends a lot on your connection speed. If you have a 300 baud modem, the difference is excruciating (2.5 MB = 18.52 hours). If you have a gigabit connection, you won't notice it (2.5 MB = 0.02

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-10 Thread Lee
On 7/10/17, meagain wrote: > On 6/21/2017 8:59 PM, Ed Mullen wrote: >> >> If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a >> browser cache. Disable it. > > Interesting and clearly true, but I had never heard that recommendation > previously. Not clearly true. try this:

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-10 Thread Felix Miata
meagain composed on 2017-07-10 11:28 (UTC-0400): > Ed Mullen wrote: >> If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a >> browser cache. Disable it. > Interesting and clearly true, but I had never heard that recommendation > previously. Not clear to me. Where's the

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-07-10 Thread meagain
On 6/21/2017 8:59 PM, Ed Mullen wrote: If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a browser cache. Disable it. Interesting and clearly true, but I had never heard that recommendation previously. ___ support-seamonkey

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-24 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
rickman wrote: I've disabled the cache and we'll see if things work better. At the moment I am able to type without all the delays. Wow! I opened the browser and even *it* snappy again. WTF! We'll see if this persists. Why would they have a cache if it goofs up things so much? Is there

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-24 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Dirk Munk wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Dirk Munk wrote: I have quite a strict view on caches, page files etc. When you *start* an application that uses a cache, that cache should be initialized. Data in a cache belongs to a running session, there shouldn't be old junk from previous

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-24 Thread rickman
David E. Ross wrote on 6/24/2017 9:56 AM: On 6/24/2017 3:11 AM, Dirk Munk wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: rickman wrote: Ed Mullen wrote on 6/21/2017 8:59 PM: If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a browser cache. Disable it. First question, how? Second

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-24 Thread Dirk Munk
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Dirk Munk wrote: David E. Ross wrote: You are quite correct. See bug #864047 at . At the cited URL, David E. Ross writes: While SeaMonkey deletes the general cache on termination (per my Private Data

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-24 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Dirk Munk wrote: David E. Ross wrote: You are quite correct. See bug #864047 at . At the cited URL, David E. Ross writes: While SeaMonkey deletes the general cache on termination (per my Private Data preference), the special caches are

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-24 Thread Dirk Munk
David E. Ross wrote: On 6/24/2017 3:11 AM, Dirk Munk wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: rickman wrote: Ed Mullen wrote on 6/21/2017 8:59 PM: If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a browser cache. Disable it. First question, how? Second question, does the

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-24 Thread David E. Ross
On 6/24/2017 3:11 AM, Dirk Munk wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> rickman wrote: >> >>> Ed Mullen wrote on 6/21/2017 8:59 PM: If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a browser cache. Disable it. >>> >>> First question, how? Second question, does the

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-24 Thread Dirk Munk
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: rickman wrote: Ed Mullen wrote on 6/21/2017 8:59 PM: If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a browser cache. Disable it. First question, how? Second question, does the browser impact the other components in SeaMonkey when the browser

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-23 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
rickman wrote: Ed Mullen wrote on 6/21/2017 8:59 PM: If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a browser cache. Disable it. First question, how? Second question, does the browser impact the other components in SeaMonkey when the browser isn't running? Edit |

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-23 Thread rickman
Ed Mullen wrote on 6/21/2017 8:59 PM: On 6/21/17 at 4:43 PM, rickman's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: rickman wrote on 6/1/2017 8:59 PM: Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 6:43 PM: rickman wrote: Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 2:08 PM: rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-21 Thread Ed Mullen
On 6/21/17 at 4:43 PM, rickman's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: rickman wrote on 6/1/2017 8:59 PM: Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 6:43 PM: rickman wrote: Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 2:08 PM: rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-21 Thread rickman
rickman wrote on 6/1/2017 8:59 PM: Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 6:43 PM: rickman wrote: Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 2:08 PM: rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-01 Thread rickman
Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 6:43 PM: rickman wrote: Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 2:08 PM: rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-01 Thread Dirk Munk
rickman wrote: Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 2:08 PM: rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried restarting SeaMonkey but it still has these

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-01 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
rickman wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 5/29/2017 3:39 AM: rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried restarting SeaMonkey but it still

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-01 Thread rickman
David E. Ross wrote on 6/1/2017 4:06 PM: On 6/1/2017 10:11 AM, rickman wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 5/29/2017 3:39 AM: rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-01 Thread David E. Ross
On 6/1/2017 10:11 AM, rickman wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 5/29/2017 3:39 AM: >> rickman wrote: >> >>> I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been >>> responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've >>> only been able to type for half that time. I've tried

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-01 Thread rickman
Dirk Munk wrote on 6/1/2017 2:08 PM: rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried restarting SeaMonkey but it still has these long delays. Task

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-01 Thread Dirk Munk
rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried restarting SeaMonkey but it still has these long delays. Task manager says there is nothing going

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-06-01 Thread rickman
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 5/29/2017 3:39 AM: rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried restarting SeaMonkey but it still has these long

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-05-29 Thread rickman
David E. Ross wrote on 5/29/2017 11:00 AM: On 5/29/2017 12:29 AM, rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried restarting SeaMonkey but it still

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-05-29 Thread Ed Mullen
On 5/29/17 at 3:29 AM, rickman's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried restarting SeaMonkey but it still

Re: SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-05-29 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
rickman wrote: I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried restarting SeaMonkey but it still has these long delays. Task manager says there is nothing going

SeaMonkey Speed Problems

2017-05-29 Thread rickman
I don't know if I can continue to use SeaMonkey. I've been responding to posts in various groups for an hour or two and I've only been able to type for half that time. I've tried restarting SeaMonkey but it still has these long delays. Task manager says there is nothing going on in the