[kastorff]

I'm looking for suggestions on ways to improve OmniWeb's (5.9.2) performance on certain sites, specifically FaceBook (www.facebook.com) and ESPN Go (espn.go.com). Both sites work far better with Firefox 3 than OW. Initial load times are ridiculously slow. More often than not, some element will fail to load, or won't work when accessed. The typical approach, adjusting ad-blocking settings and browser spoofing don't help. Neither site is simple, and I know that's much of the issue, but the difference in performance is remarkable and consistent, and that's not typical of OW versus Firefox in general use (IME).

[Fillip]

Interesting...I was having the same problem. I found the following.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...39506#comments

Make sure you 'scroll' up when you land on the above url.

Here's what I did substituting OW for safari instructions:

Prep: Make sure OW is closed..not running, then proceed to...

Step 1:
Open OmniWeb's preferences file at ~/Library/Preferences/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5.plist

Step 2:
MAKE A COPY AND SAVE ON DESKTOP.

Step 3:
Open 'com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5.plist' in a text editor. I use Text Wrangler it's free :-)

Step 4:
Immediately below the first <dict> tag add the following two lines:

<key>WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay</key>
<real>0.25</real>

Step 5:
Save

Step 6:
Close OW relaunch and see if Facebook loads faster.

Step 7:
If all is a mess, just use your copy to restore the original.

A couple of notes:
1. If after saving, your curious to see if you did it right, when you re-open the omnigroup.OmniWeb5.plist file you have to scroll all the way to the bottom where you'll see the above code that you entered. Again, all <key> entries are alphabetical.

2. If you have any doubts about doing this then don't do it. I'm living on a more desperate side. This was a first time to be messing around with the Preferences. I hope it works for you...my Facebook loaded fast. I'm using an Intel iMac with 3GBs of Ram...this little change with OW has made a difference for me.

Aloha,
Fillip

[Drayon]

Is this similar or the same as the OmniWeb applications preferences tab 'HTML Display Preferences' option 'Loading Pages enable start drawing before entirely loaded'?

a simpler method of injecting this options is via the terminal

defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5 WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay -float 0.25

[Fillip]

Originally Posted by Drayon

Is this similar or the same as the OmniWeb applications preferences tab 'HTML Display Preferences' option 'Loading Pages enable start drawing before entirely loaded'?

a simpler method of injecting this options is via the terminal

defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5 WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay -float 0.25

I believe your right. You can make the change via the terminal. I'm just terminal shy. No pun intended :-)