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If I have more than two windows opening separate sites, one of them seems to 'hang' while the other finishes up its work. Especially sites with lots of JPEGs or GIFs really 'sucks'
the life out of the other browser window!
Its kinda bugging....
Yes, on a slower computer this is very noticable, though I think it works comparable to at least Opera when it comes to Java or Flash.
True, but then why do other *lesser* mortals like Netscape 4.7 and IE 4.0 multiple windows seem to work in parallel?
an adjunct to this would be the fact that when browsing with images disabled, and having multiple windows open, if you want to view the images in the active window by toggling images on, kmeleon loads images for all open windows simultaneously, which is a high price to pay just to be able to see where an image link is on a page...
is there any possibility of giving the windows some autonomy as far as run-time changes to preferences are concerned? this seems desirable...
--- po
unfortunately, no. mozilla has what's called a pref listener. various components register to receive pref change messages (for example, the views register the "image loading" pref) so when that pref changes, it broadcasts the message to anyone willing to listen. the long and the short of it is, you can't tell the pref manager to only broadcast to certain windows.
something to keep in mind when toggling things like javascript, etc., i guess...
thanks for the explanation, anyway.
Hey...i'm beginning to sound like the worst critic of kmeleon -- which is hardly true! However, galeon uses mozilla engine too and seems to be doing fine.
Let me repeat myself -- as soon as one window starts *painting*, all others wait. period. Once that one window is done, the next one takes over...I've also been wondering if its got to do with the fact that i'm using an archaic version of windows -- Windows 98 (First Edition)?
No - It's not only you! (which means it's also not only me!)
My computer is fairly old, but NOT yet archaic, and it's NOT slow. I have noticed that kmeleon does this to me, when other browsers (IE, Netscape) seem to let their windows render independently. I have Windows 2000 on a 330MHz Celeron with 512MB of ram.
This first caught my attention when I was trying to fly through eBay listings. It really bugged me when I was double checking my picture galleries.
My original post is in a different thread:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=3&i=1685&t=1685
No - It's not only you! (which means it's also not only me!)
My computer is fairly old, but NOT yet archaic, and it's NOT slow. I have noticed that kmeleon does this to me, when other browsers (IE, Netscape) seem to let their windows render independently. I have Windows 2000 on a 330MHz Celeron with 512MB of ram.
This first caught my attention when I was trying to fly through eBay listings. It really bugged me when I was double checking my picture galleries.
My original post is in a different thread:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=3&i=1685&t=1685
-Nate
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Is this happening only to me?
Posted by:
PaintedReality
Date: November 22, 2001 03:53PM
If I have more than two windows opening separate sites, one of them seems to 'hang' while the other finishes up its work. Especially sites with lots of JPEGs or GIFs really 'sucks'
the life out of the other browser window!Its kinda bugging....
Re: Is this happening only to me?
Posted by:
Matthew
Date: November 23, 2001 09:49AM
Yes, on a slower computer this is very noticable, though I think it works comparable to at least Opera when it comes to Java or Flash.
Re: Is this happening only to me?
Posted by:
PaintedReality
Date: November 27, 2001 10:03AM
True, but then why do other *lesser* mortals like Netscape 4.7 and IE 4.0 multiple windows seem to work in parallel?
Re: Is this happening only to me?
Posted by:
po
Date: November 27, 2001 10:22AM
an adjunct to this would be the fact that when browsing with images disabled, and having multiple windows open, if you want to view the images in the active window by toggling images on, kmeleon loads images for all open windows simultaneously, which is a high price to pay just to be able to see where an image link is on a page...
is there any possibility of giving the windows some autonomy as far as run-time changes to preferences are concerned? this seems desirable...
--- po
Re: Is this happening only to me?
Posted by:
Brian
Date: November 27, 2001 04:56PM
unfortunately, no. mozilla has what's called a pref listener. various components register to receive pref change messages (for example, the views register the "image loading" pref) so when that pref changes, it broadcasts the message to anyone willing to listen. the long and the short of it is, you can't tell the pref manager to only broadcast to certain windows.
Re: Is this happening only to me?
Posted by:
po
Date: November 27, 2001 07:36PM
something to keep in mind when toggling things like javascript, etc., i guess...
thanks for the explanation, anyway.
Re: Is this happening only to me?
Posted by:
PaintedReality
Date: November 29, 2001 07:04AM
Hey...i'm beginning to sound like the worst critic of kmeleon -- which is hardly true! However, galeon uses mozilla engine too and seems to be doing fine.
Let me repeat myself -- as soon as one window starts *painting*, all others wait. period. Once that one window is done, the next one takes over...I've also been wondering if its got to do with the fact that i'm using an archaic version of windows -- Windows 98 (First Edition)?
Re: Is this happening only to me?
Posted by:
Nate
Date: January 21, 2002 04:12AM
No - It's not only you! (which means it's also not only me!)
My computer is fairly old, but NOT yet archaic, and it's NOT slow. I have noticed that kmeleon does this to me, when other browsers (IE, Netscape) seem to let their windows render independently. I have Windows 2000 on a 330MHz Celeron with 512MB of ram.
This first caught my attention when I was trying to fly through eBay listings. It really bugged me when I was double checking my picture galleries.
My original post is in a different thread:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=3&i=1685&t=1685
Re: Is this happening only to me?
Posted by:
Nate
Date: January 21, 2002 04:26AM
No - It's not only you! (which means it's also not only me!)
My computer is fairly old, but NOT yet archaic, and it's NOT slow. I have noticed that kmeleon does this to me, when other browsers (IE, Netscape) seem to let their windows render independently. I have Windows 2000 on a 330MHz Celeron with 512MB of ram.
This first caught my attention when I was trying to fly through eBay listings. It really bugged me when I was double checking my picture galleries.
My original post is in a different thread:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?f=3&i=1685&t=1685
-Nate
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