Browser Support • Re: Pale Moon response speed under miserable ping times

Fixed!!

Thanks. I tried turning off 'hardware acceleration', but if it made any improvement it wasn't clear. I closed and re-opened Pale Moon, hard to tell. I'd closed all tabs, all windows, restarted Pale Moon, still flaky.

But:

On general principle, I rebooted the whole computer. Oddly enough, it asked for a CHKDSK. Okay, off you go. It didn't seem to find much, then rebooted perfectly normally. Then something strange happened: I restarted Pale Moon, and suddenly it popped up a long-forgotten page full of tabs! It had not appeared in dozens of previous restarts of Pale Moon - but did when restarting the computer. Closing that window (with its nine tabs) seems to have made a vast improvement!

Somehow a page that was supposed to get recovered(?) got jammed(?), and then started eating up all my IO. No, I have no idea why, and I have no idea how to replicate this behavior. It may have had something to do with a failed shutdown some weeks ago (the power went) but everything seemed to run fine for some time after that.

Anyhow, seems happier (much happier!!) now. Thanks for everything! Scav.

PS - Updating the NVIDIA drivers through their little control panel didn't work. My next step was going to be trying to install updates manually, but I have to be careful that they'll still run under Win7, and it does seem the problem's fixed for now. Also next test is turn 'hardware acceleration' back on again - will get back to you on that. S.

eta PPS - Seems to work fine with HW accel turned back on, too. So it was Pale Moon - as a sort of zombie Pale Moon. Weird - but working now! Whee! S.