207747 - Rendering of text i type in very very slow. Pressing key-down to scroll down is very very slow.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: HTML Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Anandha]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030530 Camino/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030530 Camino/0.7+

Two things bout camino i have noticed
1. typing in things, e.g. replying to an email using hotmail, the letters render
very very slowly on the screen.
2. Load a page that you can scroll on, press key down to scroll (use keyboard
down arrow), page is horrendously slow to render.

I thought that it could just be my setup (powerbook g4, 667Mhz, 512Mb ram), but
its not.  I installed safari, and mozilla firebird today and tried the above two
tests.  Both are wickedly normal.  There is something definitely dodgy about
this.  I use Firebird at work (windows 2000), and don't encounter this problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type normally in a text box - each character renders really really slow.
2. Press down arrow on keyboard, the page scroll is horrible - slow slow slow
3.

Actual Results:  
Rending of letters or page is slow slow slow

Expected Results:  
It should keep up with the speed i type at.. 

I know this could be defined as a minor bug, but it seriously degrades the
usablility of the browser to the point where i'm going to switch to either
safari or firebird until this is fixed..

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

as you said - Camino...

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Anandha, try reproducing this problem after quitting Camino and temporarily
removing your ~/Library/Application Support/Chimera folder.

Also, is typing the same in Camino's URL Bar as it is in form fields on a web page?

Comment 3

[Anandha]

So i tried the follwowing

www.hotmail.com, logged in, started entering text (body of an email), it was really slow.  Typing in 
the URL bar is fine (quite fast).

Quit camino, renamed ~/Library/Application Support/Chimera to Chimeria.old.  Restarted camino, 
all my bookmarks etc were gone, and tried above.  Results is same - typing into a text box is 
rendered quite slow.

Let me know if you need any more info.

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Reporter could you update the sttus of this issue with a more recent build please.
Typing in bugzilla does not seems slow to me - 2003082402.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Text field entry seems fine to me also using 2004021008. Resolving WFM pending
further information from reporter.

Comment 6

[Anandha]

1. don't use camino as much anymore.. as it was too slow
2. tried recent build, and seems to work fine in 10.3.2

cheers
anandha