[Brake6]

Hello

I know it is still a alpha. But ask anyway (maybe I have a "bad" preference or something).

When starting OmniWeb it takes several seconds (≈5 s) before the window is shown.

I have the default start page – but choosing "empty" have the same delay.

regards
Magnus

[kocab]

I'm seeing the same thing lately with the nightly builds.

I was wondering if it had something to do with syncing my bookmarks via .Mac. But there's been a significant increase in Omniweb appearing to slow down my operating system lately.

Hopefully whatever is going on will get fixed soon.

[JKT]

Try clearing your history.

[troyb]

You also might try this:
http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=4464

[zottel]

Originally Posted by JKT

Try clearing your history.

What is it, actually, that makes OW slow down when the history has become very large? I deliberately want to have a large history in order to be able to find pages I have visited some time ago with that great OW feature of just typing in keywords.

Is there really no way to have OW start up quickly and have a large history?

[troyb]

The full text of web pages is stored in an ox database which unfortunately isn't the greatest performer at larger sizes. It's this database that usually causes the history slow downs and there isn't a lot that can be done to prevent this from happening.

You can nuke your history index database. Doing this wont kill your history list just the ability to do full text searches of the visited pages (which it sounds like you may be using).

1.) In finder go to: "~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/" (where ~ is your home folder)
2.) Find and remove the file called: "HistoryIndex.ox"

Restart OmniWeb.

[Brake6]

Hi
I have trashed the ox-file and make sure OmniWeb using the default icon database.

But the startup is still slow.

Regards
Magnus

[jehrler]

Well, with the latest alpha, 91344, OW doesn't ever seem to finish trying to launch. Both processors hit 100% and I eventually have to force quit.

Using the prior version, 91312 I had no issues at all.

However, something is now borked as reverting back to 91312 yields the same problem.

<sigh>

[jehrler]

Well, I ended up having to delete my history to fix the problem.

[adinb]

the problem is an "exploding history file" (the history plist) -- I've seen mine "explode" to 100 & 200 MB on two machines.