Revlet move freezes on Mac Firefox

David Glasgow david at dvglasgow.wanadoo.co.uk
Wed Nov 18 04:48:15 EST 2009


My previous posting on this was too full of waffle.

This is the heart of it (on Leopard Mac):

> In Firefox (3.5.5) there are a few glitches:
>
> 1/  If I am online, I get a "waiting for Runrev.com" message on  
> launch for maybe a couple of seconds, then a plugin progress bar,  
> then the first card.  Don't see any of that in Safari.
>
> 2/  Perhaps 30% of object moves freeze part way through.   
> Eventually the beach-ball appears, and Firefox is unresponsive for  
> anything up to 45 seconds.  Activity monitor reports FF as not  
> responding, and then it all suddenly comes back, and the object  
> appears at its destination.  Nothing happens to CPU levels during  
> lock up.  As far as I can establish the problem only occurs if a  
> change of object to be moved has occurred, and then only about % 
> 30ish of the time. Moving the same object many times does not ever  
> seem to trigger the problem.
>
> 3/  On Safari I also have the unresponsive until window moved  
> problem reported elsewhere, and also discovered that while the  
> revlet is running, Cmd-Q doesn't seem to work.  Don't know whether  
> that has been found elsewhere.

Is there anything I can try to fix any of the above, or is it just a  
matter of waiting for improvements to the plug in?

David Glasgow





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