Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

[nightowl]

Turning off the smooth scrolling helps a little but actually, I see a 
pretty noticeable difference in responsiveness between the version 52 
and version 60 icecat on my system.  I can switch between my old and new 
setup from the boot menu, and I find that the older 52 version is faster 
and smoother and works fine with the smooth scrolling option.  When I 
boot into the upgraded system running the upgraded version 60 there is a 
noticeable lag in the responsiveness of icecat browser (but the crash 
tab issue appears fixed in the newer version).  Maybe it is more 
apparent on the older hardware which my system is installed, or perhaps 
the upgrade of my system has changed some other things though I used the 
same config.scm file as the previous upgrade.  I also compare the 
responsiveness of the Gnome Web browser, and it is good in both the old 
and new configurations.  This makes me think it has more to do with the 
new icecat version than something with the system upgrade.

On 30.09.2018 17:20, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 04:27:11 +0200, nightowl wrote:
> > Thanks all for the help and advice on handling package upgrades and 
> > memory
> > management.  I have been able to update my system now and use icecat 
> > version
> > 60.  I can verify that the tab crash appears to be resolved with this 
> > new
> > version of icecat on my PC, however I also now notice that scrolling 
> > is not
> > as smooth as it used to be.
>
> I don't experience issues, but try disabling "smooth scrolling" in
> preferences.  In past versions of IceCat/Firefox, I've had to disable 
> it
> on older hardware for performance reasons.