[Stashie]

I use OW as my primary browser, and have done that for a year or so. It's perhaps my favourite app for the Mac, so I am kinda patient with the program.

But... It seems that every fifth minute, the program freezes, and the beachball appears. The only thing I can do is forcing OW to quit, and then restart it, which really is a pain in the a*se. It has happened now and again in the past, but this is getting redicilous.

For the record, I have a MacBook with the latest Tiger build, and I maintain the system with Onyx so that everything should be running smoothly.

Any tips?

[Forrest]

Wait for 5.6.

[JKT]

Known issue with JS and garbage collection in the version of WebKit that OmniWeb is currently based on. When the update to a more recent version of WebKit is complete (which is due to occur in 5.6, hence Forrest's short response) this shouldn't happen anymore.

[troyb]

Well, this could be a JavaScript issue. It could be something else though, I would suggest the original poster to contact support (via Send Feedback in the help menu). We can take a closer look at the problem, we actually don't get a huge number of reports regarding the javascript issue.

Before writing into support you may want to get a sample of OmniWeb during the freeze. The sample will help tell us what exactly OmniWeb is trying to do at this time.

To do this, open the Activity Monitor--an app found in your Applications, Utilities folder. Select OmniWeb from the list, double click on it. In the new window click on "Sample", this will open up one more window--after it completes save the content to a text file. Include this when you write into us and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

[JKT]

Originally Posted by troyb

Well, this could be a JavaScript issue. It could be something else though<snip>

True - my bad.

we actually don't get a huge number of reports regarding the javascript issue.

Well, I could start sending you them again if you really want, but I think I'll get a little bored of doing it every half hour/hour or so that I'm using OmniWeb ;)

[troyb]

Oh i wasn't trying to imply that this problem no longer exists. I'm just saying that there is a sect of people that are hitting it and in my experience that sect isn't the majority.

We know that both you and Forrest and many other users are still experiencing the problem, sorry about that.

[Forrest]

Hey troy, what else have you guys found that causes this? I'd like to know just because then I can keep an eye out and see if I'm running into those issues too.

[technomage]

Originally Posted by troyb

To do this, open the Activity Monitor--an app found in your Applications, Utilities folder. Select OmniWeb from the list, double click on it. In the new window click on "Sample", this will open up one more window--after it completes save the content to a text file. Include this when you write into us and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, if Omniweb has control of the system, as I have found to be the case, you can't do this. I see this problem crop up repeatedly since the last OS update (10.4.9) where OW pages with lots of images don't scroll and drag-and-drop of images to the Finder causes the whole system to stall for anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes. You can move the mouse, during that time, but any interactions with the GUI are hugely delayed.