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Very slow rendering of WYSIWYG editor preview

+4 votes

Do you sometimes experience very slow rendering of preview of both answers and comments? With my 2-core, 2GB RAM, Firefox machine editor gets every few written characters busy for few seconds so that it is unusable. I don't observe this behaviour on stackexchange.com running similiar WYSIWYG editor.

Everybody who suffers from this issue, please, report in a comment what browser do you use.

closed with the note: "A reason from future light cone"
asked Jun 16, 2013 by Jan Blechta FEniCS Expert (51,420 points)
closed Jun 26, 2013 by Jan Blechta

Same with me! Sometimes my firefox even complains about unresponsive java scripts.

commented Jun 17, 2013 by Jan FEniCS User (8,290 points)

The editors available for q2a are limited in number. It is possible to switch back to the built-in editor, but it would probably make code highlighting stop working.

It would be nice to get the exact same editor as on stackexchange - but it probably involves a lot of JavaScript hacking to get it working...

commented Jun 17, 2013 by chris_richardson FEniCS Expert (31,740 points)

If there is no easy fix how to get around this then never mind, Chris. It's only slight inconvenience - one can always type into a text editor without preview and then paste into Q2A editor.

commented Jun 17, 2013 by Jan Blechta FEniCS Expert (51,420 points)

@Jan, may Firefox be the cause of the problem?

commented Jun 17, 2013 by Jan Blechta FEniCS Expert (51,420 points)

I've been using Google Chrome with no real problems...

commented Jun 17, 2013 by chris_richardson FEniCS Expert (31,740 points)

I'm using Chromium (with 16GB of RAM). The preview is not immediate (and the first time I thought it was broken), but it does work ok if one gets used to it.

commented Jun 17, 2013 by logg FEniCS Expert (11,790 points)

Yes, I don't have these problems when using Chrome.

commented Jun 18, 2013 by Jan FEniCS User (8,290 points)

It seems that Chrome solves the issue.

commented Jun 26, 2013 by Jan Blechta FEniCS Expert (51,420 points)
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