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Title: IBrowse really freaking slow to resume?
Post by: XDelusion on November 09, 2007, 04:22:37 AM
I'm runnig the copy of IBrowse that came with Amikit in uae.

When ever I iconify Ibrowse, then go to bring it back up, it takes a good 5 seconds or so, but ANY other program including AWeb has no issue with this. Is that normal, or is IBrowse just slow like that? Been a while so I don't recall.
Title: Re: IBrowse really freaking slow to resume?
Post by: XDelusion on November 17, 2007, 11:50:37 PM
No one has experienced this either I presume?
Title: Re: IBrowse really freaking slow to resume?
Post by: Castellen on November 18, 2007, 01:02:20 AM
I tried iconifying IB2.4 just now (from it's own private screen), which it does instantly.
Like you, I noticed that it takes approx 3-4 seconds to re-open the private screen and re-draw the windows.  That's on this A4000T/060 and a browser screen of 1024 x 768 (Picasso IV).

It looks like when you iconify IB, it simply keeps the HTML data, but not the rendered page.  So when you re-open it, all pages which you previously had open must be re-rendered.  Therefore if you have a number of browsers/windows which each have a fair bit of HTML layout work to be done, then IB is going to take even longer to redraw everything.

Don't know how AWeb does it, it probably stores a copy of the rendered page instead.

I never use the iconify feature anyway as I find it more convenient to have IB on it's own private screen, so keeps it from cluttering up any other screens.  Switching between screens is of course nearly instant.
Title: Re: IBrowse really freaking slow to resume?
Post by: weirdami on November 18, 2007, 01:38:15 AM
Yeah, I don't see why you'd ever need to iconify on an Amiga.
Title: Re: IBrowse really freaking slow to resume?
Post by: ChaosLord on November 18, 2007, 06:23:11 AM
Best way to speed up Ibrowse is to install TLSFmem.  Zoom.
Title: Re: IBrowse really freaking slow to resume?
Post by: Framiga on November 18, 2007, 11:20:26 AM
only because IB reload the whole page from the net, when un-iconified.

try iconify from a blank page ... ;-)