Safari... page loads in background tabs...
why are they so freakin slow??
if I have a tab in the same window that is downloading a movie my bandwidth transfer speed will drop dramatically...
right now I have a pretty fat pipe (ok, its REALLY fat... over 5mbit according to speed tests at dsl reports) so I don't see any reason for a slowdown if the page is not the current tab in use....
there is also a slight slowdown (about half as much as the slowdown from a background tab) if the a separate PAGE is downloading in a different safari window...
any explanation for these differences?
if I have a tab in the same window that is downloading a movie my bandwidth transfer speed will drop dramatically...
right now I have a pretty fat pipe (ok, its REALLY fat... over 5mbit according to speed tests at dsl reports) so I don't see any reason for a slowdown if the page is not the current tab in use....
there is also a slight slowdown (about half as much as the slowdown from a background tab) if the a separate PAGE is downloading in a different safari window...
any explanation for these differences?
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Originally posted by Stoo
Is Safari actually multithreaded? It doesn't seem to like doing several things at once, with the Beachball of Death showing up far too often for my liking.
Very much so, yes, but some parts of WebCore, as I recall, are not. Omni has struggled to fix some of those threading issues.