1679326 - Constant intermitant hang ups while typing or scrolling.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[e8n2]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.5.1

Steps to reproduce:

I didn't have to do a thing. The system is constantly hanging up while typing and scrolling. The pointer stops moving, the the Windows busy icon comes up, and then after a few seconds it releases and you can start scrolling again. When typing the flashing vertical line just freezes up and you can't see what you are typing until after it releases. So far it has hung up three times just while I have been typing this!

Actual results:

See above.

Expected results:

I should be able to type and scroll with NO interuptions, like I eas able to do up until a few months ago. I have two desktops and one laptop. One of the desktops is running Windows 7, the laptop and the other desktop are on Windows 10 and all three have the exact same problem! The laptop and Windows 7 desktop both have had a clean install of Windows in the past four months. Also the Microsoft Edge web browser DOES NOT have this problem so it is NOT a Windows problem, but a Seamonkey problem. I can't believe that I am the only person having this problem.

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Found some possiby related or DUPs in this query.

@Reporter, please:
a) do a test with a newly created User Profile whether the problem on particular pages will persist?
b) contribute URLs of pages where the problem is very reporducible?
c) Is the problem on those pages immediately after you launched SM?
d) contribute some additional observations (CPU load, Memory usage, ...)

Comment 2

[e8n2]

Attachment: Web Sites hanging up.txt This is a record of problems I had on all three computers using Seamonkey over a three day period with urls.

I have attached a log of what happened over a three day period on all three computers that I use. All of them have Seamonkey on them, and all are using 2.53.5.1. OS' involved:
Primary Desktop
Windows 10 Pro
Secondary Desktop
Windows 7 Pro
Laptop
Windows 10 Home

Comment 3

[e8n2]

On the primary desktop today everything seemed to be going fine until I hit this website:

https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard/_/league/ger.1

There is something about sites like this one, and it's not the only one, that uses something that messes up SeaMonkey.

Comment 4

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

The page takes about 1.3GB memory because of all the stuff loaded. A lots af ads and constant web traffic because of it. But eventually it calms down. 2.57 apha 1 is a bit better here but I experience no real problems in a virtual machine with both.

What are your overall hardware specs of the systems affected? Processor, ram and graphics card.

Edge is probably not affected because it uses a separate process for the website content.

Comment 5

[e8n2]

Primary Desktop
AMD FX 6300 six core processor
16GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 8400GS video card

Laptop
Intel Core i7 eight core processor
16GB RAM
Intel HD Graphics 4600
Nvidia GeForce 860M

Secondary Desktop
Athlon 64X2 Dual core processor 5200+
6GB RAM
Radeon X1600 video card

Because it is happening on all three computers, and only started within the last six to eight months ago, and both the secondary desktop and laptop have both had a clean install of windows done in the past few months, I don't believe it is a hardware problem. If it was it would have been doing it since day one, and the odds are not to good for all three systems messing up the exact same way while using SeaMonkey. It has to be a software problem. You even came across it even though for you it got somewhat better, but it doesn't for me. It only gets worse as time goes on and more and more garbage builds up. Clearing the cache does not help, only restarting the computer has been noted to really do anything. I always clear out the cache before shutting down SeaMonkey. Today on the primary desktop it took 30 - 40 seconds for SeaMonkey to finally close after hitting the exit button! If Edge does not have the same problems going through ad intensive sites, then that only means that SeaMonkey has a problem with them because of poorly written code. It wasn't like this earlier in the year, and there have been several new releases of SeaMonkey that have come out and it is with one of the new releases that the problem started up. Sorry I can't tell you which one.

Comment 6

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

The AMD FX 6300 is a bit dated but should be ok. The Laptop too. The 64X2 is ready for retirement.

I am not experiencing these problem. If you don't run an ad or scriptblocker yet try NoScript 5.1.9 and uBlock Classic. Links to current versions are in the release notes. Might be related to ads or scripts induced by ads. Esspecially https://www.espn.com/soccer/scoreboard/_/league/ger.1 does this and constantly load junk content in the background.

Comment 7

[e8n2]

I have downloaded NoScript and a uBlock file. First off, what program do I use to install these as windows, which ordinarily be the program to open and run them, doesn't want to do it and asks me what program to use to run the file. They downloaded as .xpi files. Secondly, the uBlock file I downloaded did NOT come from uBlock.org. Should I get it from the .org website or from uBlock Origin? However I will point out once again, that up until a recent update to SeaMonkey about four to six months ago, I was NOT having this problem. The codewriters did something to mess it up. Unless there is another web browser out there that has the e-mail reader built in like SeaMonkey has, and Netscape before that, I am stuck with SeaMonkey and right now I am not happy about that because of this problem.