spinning cursor

[Colin Allen]

Piers wrote:
> I observe two different types of this problem:
>
> I) OmniWeb doesn't do anything anymore (not even updating the
> download duration or the animated status bars). This definitely
> happens much less often when I deactivate the proxy server  (I'm
> using a squid proxy which OmniWeb is known to have problems
> with).

Not using a proxy server here but this happened to me about 30 minutes ago.   
I had to kill from the process panel, which meant that I lost the sites I  
was visiting as the Persistent History does not get updated on a kill -KILL.

> II) OmniWeb doesn't seem to react to any events any more, but
> still continues to update its windows (e.g. the download
> duration, the animated status bars etc.)
>
> 	IIa) 	Some lengthy timeout - will recover eventually
>
> 	IIb) 	Will not recover, but still continues to update
> stuff in the UI.

I have never seen it recover but maybe I have less patience!

I also see a third type of case where the reaction is one event behind the  
input.  It's possible to keep using the browser under these conditions, but  
it's annoying and usually causes me to restart it.  I can usually do this  
with a quit from the menu, so I don't lose the bookmark changes, event  
history, etc.  This kind of problem seems most common when interacting with  
javascript sites.  Last time it happened I tried disabling javascript while  
the cursor was spinning, but nothing changed.  (I was wondering whether  
disabling javascript would also kill any running javascript processes, but I  
knew it was unlikely to work.)

> In general I think that these problems definitely got worse in
> OmniWeb 3.1  rc1 and rc2.

At least no better for me.  I can't say worse, but I'm not using squid, so...

Cheers,
Colin

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Colin Allen
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