Re: Epiphany browser very slow

Hi Kent,

Thanks for testing. On my side I have:

# aptitude show epiphany-browser

Package: epiphany-browser

Version: 3.20.3-2

State: installed

Automatically installed: no

Priority: optional

Section: gnome

Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

Architecture: amd64

Uncompressed Size: 2,116 k

...

The program pops up quickly, but if you try to type anything inside the input box of ddg.gg it will be terribly slow entering characters. I feel like 1 character per 5 seconds or more. Generally characters are buffered and after half a minute you end with your search message there but this is quite unusable.

I'm using epiphany as main browser, so may be data cache or something related.

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Abou Al Montacir

On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 13:54 -0500, Kent West wrote:

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:56 AM, Abou Al Montacir <abou.almontacir@sfr.fr> wrote:
I'm using epiphany browser fro long time and was generally happy despite some missing features.
However since few weeks it become very slowly and almost non usable. Browsing sites like http://ddg.gg became so painful that I start hating it.
Other sites also, like google+, which have forms to fill are slow.

I tried searching for this issue and did not find any report. Can anyone try with a "testing" machine and let me know. I'm using amd64 machine.

PS: Please copy me as I'm not subscribed.
ephiphany-browser on my sid machine pops up quickly; ddg.com loads quickly, as does googleplus.com and slashdot.org. "about:" reports "Web Version 3.20.3").

But I haven't used it for months (only about two minutes), so if there's some sort of slow cruft build-up, that could be relevant.

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