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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Apr 19 2005, 03:32 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
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