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I20110602 FireFox 4.0.1 Using the editor today on a file of roughly 800 lines. I am finding that once in awhile while editing or moving the cursor with the keyboard, I get very long pauses where nothing happens. For example if I hold down arrow, about every 100 lines I get a 2-3 second pause. This quickly gets quite annoying while editing because it fails to keep up with your typing or navigation.
Editing the same file is smooth as silk on Chrome 11...
John, can you please try something for me out of curiosity. Close firefox (all the firefox processes) Start a fresh firefox, navigate directly to the editor page and try reproducing this problem again. On my machine I saw this problem on firefox for a bit (I saw a pause every ~200 lines holding arrow up down), but after I restarted firefox the problem stopped.
Yes it is much better after a restart. Only very tiny pauses when scrolling through a file like the text view. I guess these are probably GC pauses.
I find in general that I have to kill Firefox at least once in the day to restore snappiness. I've always assumed it's a GC thing but wonder if we are leaking something.
I also experience long pauses (60-90 seconds) when adding or deleting text to an existing line. Also, editor no longer prompts with member variable or function names when a period is typed after a class variable. The pauses make Eclipse barely usable for Java projects, and the prompts are sorely missed. This cannot be a Windows 7 problem as Netbeans does not pause when editing text, and it still prompts when a period is typed, albeit with a slight (a few milliseconds) pause.
(In reply to comment #5) > I also experience long pauses (60-90 seconds) when adding or deleting text to > an existing line. Also, editor no longer prompts with member variable or > function names when a period is typed after a class variable. The pauses make > Eclipse barely usable for Java projects, and the prompts are sorely missed. > This cannot be a Windows 7 problem as Netbeans does not pause when editing > text, and it still prompts when a period is typed, albeit with a slight (a few > milliseconds) pause. Hi Charles, I think you have the wrong eclipse project here. Orion is a browser-based set of tools and not associated with Eclipse IDE code-base. Your comments sound like Eclipse Desktop problems -- e.g. Product=JDT.
I was trying this today in an editor with 6000 lines, in a Firefox 11 session that I had been running all day. I didn't notice the pauses any more so I'm going to close this.
