180534 - improve back / forward performance

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 38486

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

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improve back / forward performance

here's mike lee's idea:

from
http://www.exitspace.net/mike/blog/archives/2002_11_01_mikelee_archive.html#84516896

Reading this thread about opera 7 [*] and someone mention how much faster opera
is at showing the page when you click back. I thought of something, it's based
on the similar idea of keeping the back page in memory (sorry I can't find it,
but I know it's in bugzilla). But my idea is a hack, it doesn't require
modification to mozilla's core engine, it's optional (ie, it can be turned off
easily) and it should be easy to do. The idea is to hae a 'invisible' tab for
each tab storing the page before it. So when user click on a link on the page
the current page is stored into that invisible tab and the visible tab loads the
page. Or make current tab invisible and create a new one at it's position to
load the page, or any other method based on the same idea. Then clicking back
should be fast just like switching tab.

[*] http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=676

Comment 1

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devil advocate:  this idea is like the cached compose window, and we should just
fix it the right way.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Seth: Do you saw bug 38486 ?

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Right, I knew there was another bug on this (and it had already been discussed
to death).  Let's discuss there, since all the interested people are cc:ed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38486 ***