yesterday...

Hi,

I did upgrade from an older Debian (Galeon 1.2.27 or sth around, gnome 2.6) 
to the recent testing "Sid" with galeon 1.3.21, Gnome 2.8. 
I should mention this included an XFreee86 upgrade, too. 

Scrolling the bookmark sidebar is slow now as hell.
And i have a huge bookmark tree which i use intensively.
 It even looses the mouse contact completely for the long latency. 
I admit this is only a 500Mhz box with 256M, but it was much better until yesterday.

Well, it could be sth. with the process thread handling...some other parts seem to be a little
slower too. For example the active button highlighting (for hoovering mouse) is delayed very much.
Rebuilding the windows contents when cycling workspaces also is a little bit slower.

What component or lib could be responsible for his issue ? I've no clue. 
Maybe i should ask someone of XPToolkit ? 

In the past, some year ago, i faced slowness with mozilla, which was the reason i ditched
it completely, as browser and mailer. Luckily galeon was much faster. 

I just checked mozilla , fireefox , and nautilus:

- Firefox is slow comparable to galeon.
- Nautilus (sidebar) is normal, fast enough.
- Funny thing is, mozilla *mailer* now is faster than it was long ago, and much faster than galeon.
Especially the folder tree sidebar ! Hmmm....what's the difference ? No favicons there...? 
(I remember you changed something with favicons and bookmark view...)
More funny, i can't get any bookmark sidebar at all in the navigator, not even with 'show always'.
Epiphany the same, it says 'There are no sidebars installed'.

This epiphany and mozilla installations are complete, any suggested packages inclusive, 
only without xprt and latex-fonts. 

Error logs:
<(Gecko:13606): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)>

However, together with the upgrade i also installed the latest Sun Java JRE
and also the macromedia swf plugin plus the related mozilla components.
(versions see below)

Do you see a chance to speed things up without downgrading (or moving to another 
browser...that would be a pity) ?

Any hints appreciated...


>Micha




Installed:

Debian 3.1 testing
Gnome 2.8 (but running a pure wmaker session which is much faster)
Galeon 1.3.21
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050718 Debian/1.7.8-1sarge1
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.5.0_04-b05
Shockwave plugin libswfdecmozilla.so (swfdec-0.3.4)
XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1  (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 20050601051219)



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