Midnight Mars Browser, Midnight Mars Browser discussion |
Midnight Mars Browser, Midnight Mars Browser discussion |
Feb 11 2005, 01:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
This thread is for discussion, questions, issues with Midnight Mars Browser. Also to announce it in case anyone missed it: http://midnightmarsbrowser.blogspot.com. Oh, and any suggestions for future enhancements too, thanks.
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Apr 18 2005, 01:26 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 270 Joined: 29-December 04 From: NLA0: Member No.: 133 |
Could you add a pause button ? The generation of images pretty much destroys the performance of your computer. Even just browsing the web is slow during image generation. If you do a big update it can take quite a while to generate all images, something a user might not be willing to wait for. A pause button to halt the generation process while you're using the computer would be great to handle this situation
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Apr 18 2005, 03:30 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: 2-March 05 Member No.: 180 |
QUOTE (DEChengst @ Apr 17 2005, 08:26 PM) Could you add a pause button ? The generation of images pretty much destroys the performance of your computer. Even just browsing the web is slow during image generation. If you do a big update it can take quite a while to generate all images, something a user might not be willing to wait for. A pause button to halt the generation process while you're using the computer would be great to handle this situation Either that, or else set the program to start at a priority level below normal. That's what I do in WinXP - when the program starts, I set javaw.exe to Below Normal priority - the computer's normal then. MMB just waits its turn then to get CPU time, instead of hogging it like it does at the Normal priority setting. |
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Apr 18 2005, 02:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Apr 18 2005, 03:30 AM) QUOTE (DEChengst @ Apr 17 2005, 08:26 PM) Could you add a pause button ? The generation of images pretty much destroys the performance of your computer. Even just browsing the web is slow during image generation. If you do a big update it can take quite a while to generate all images, something a user might not be willing to wait for. A pause button to halt the generation process while you're using the computer would be great to handle this situation Either that, or else set the program to start at a priority level below normal. That's what I do in WinXP - when the program starts, I set javaw.exe to Below Normal priority - the computer's normal then. MMB just waits its turn then to get CPU time, instead of hogging it like it does at the Normal priority setting. I'll see what I can do; I'd rather set the priority level than add a pause button at this point. Not that there's anything wrong with a pause button, it's just that it would be a fair bit of work and there are about 12 different things I'd rather do first. Setting the priority would be a tidy solution. Can't say as I've observed this processor hogging behavior on my own machines, though, so I'm not sure how I'm going to test it yet. |
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Apr 18 2005, 02:20 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
my old pentium 2 does grind to a halt when images are being created, setting to below normal does solve this.
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Apr 18 2005, 03:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
QUOTE (MahFL @ Apr 18 2005, 02:20 PM) my old pentium 2 does grind to a halt when images are being created, setting to below normal does solve this. How much RAM do your systems have? MMB is a bit of a memory hog; 512Mb is really needed for performance to be decent. Not that I'm doubting that setting the priority might be a good thing. |
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May 10 2005, 09:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 118 Joined: 14-March 05 Member No.: 195 |
QUOTE (mhoward @ Apr 18 2005, 03:06 PM) QUOTE (MahFL @ Apr 18 2005, 02:20 PM) my old pentium 2 does grind to a halt when images are being created, setting to below normal does solve this. How much RAM do your systems have? MMB is a bit of a memory hog; 512Mb is really needed for performance to be decent. Not that I'm doubting that setting the priority might be a good thing. Cool ver-.7 did the trick. When I get time I'll go back and try the older machines again. but it works on this one which is "machine 2- 256 ram amd k62" I'll give a better update in a few days but it is doing the initial regeneration of the images with little or no bogging down. Well done. |
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May 16 2005, 01:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
Version 1.0.8 is now up. New features include proxy support and a "Check for New Images" feature that quickly scans both Exploratorium and JPL for raw images that haven't been downloaded yet. This version also handles switching updates between Exploratorium and JPL without re-downloading files. A problem where a download could freeze indefinitely has been fixed.
http://midnightmarsbrowser.blogspot.com |
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