[plt-scheme] firefox locking up 15 seconds for each plt documentation search

From: Jos Koot (jos.koot at telefonica.net)
Date: Sun Jun 7 04:30:15 EDT 2009

On my Windows XP firefox starts very slowly too, may be 5 seconds. This happens too when calling Firefox directly from the start 
menu.
Jos
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd O'Bryan" <toddobryan at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 3:18 AM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] firefox locking up 15 seconds for each plt documentation search


Also fine for me on Linux. Are all the problems on OS X, possibly?

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Dave Herman<dherman at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I should've complained earlier! Yes, I figured everyone just put up with
> this. :) It's so bad that I never use F1 and just keep a page open to the
> docs. Even then, any search still locks up the browser for a painfully long
> time.
>
> Thanks for bringing this up. I should've said something sooner.
>
> Dave
>
> On Jun 6, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
>
>> I just got private email from someone that he doesn't experience this
>> problem (on Linux with Firefox). And Eli has said in the past that he
>> doesn't experience it either.
>>
>>
>> Matthias Felleisen wrote at 06/06/2009 06:48 PM:
>>>
>>> I have complained about this often. Happens on safari and others, too.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 6, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone else's entire Firefox 3 lock up completely for around 15
>>>> seconds *every* time they either load the PLT "Search Manuals" or enter a
>>>> query in the "...search manuals..." field that's at the top of each page?
>>
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