linux 2001050308 when i type an url to location bar, a line appears under it with the text "search <some search engine> for <the url you are typing>". well, that is just fine and dandy, but even when typing at a "normal" speed, this automatically updating and resizing search-bar thingie seems to hog all the cpu in the world and can't keep up to my typing on a 600mhz machine. and more to the point, what is this search-bar-thing needed for anyway? there is already a "search" button right of the location bar that does exactly the same thing, so what good does this little eye-candy do? and seems like there is no way of getting rid of it either, turning the search-button off from preferences doesn't get me rid of this "search netscape search for qwer..." line. *me very cranky*

that's not search, that's url bar. and how do you know what's eating the cpu?

yes, you're right, i haven't really done any digging on this so it's mostly guessing.. but anyhow, as an average user the only difference i can see to a build few days ago is the search-thing. before that came along, typing to url bar hardly caused any noticeable cpu usage, now cpu usage leaps to 100% and it can't keep up. so it might or might not be the cause, just my observation.. :)

I guess this should be on a timer.. hewitt?

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This has been affecting me as well, since hewitt's landing. Typing a url in is definitely too slow. It is unfortunately not easily measurable, but characters do 'lag' some way behind my typing. It is also very noticable when you have the caret at the end of a longish url, and hold down the delete key - takes some time to blank the field.

The search should not append and the dialog should not appear unless the typing speed is less than X. Like the time between two keystrokes is less than X... Would not be hard to implement, wasn't like that before?, and it would make a huge speed improvement to enter text. Autocomplete is just unusable here...

It turns out that typing speed doesn't change that much with autocomplete turned off. With it switched off, it's still unacceptably slow. See bug 83205, ccing hyatt from there.

My computer is too fast (and is win2k) to notice the slowdown anyway - can somebody experiencing the pain please try out the patch I just posted and let us know if it improves performance?

just landed patch that should speed this up. I hope it helps. Marking fixed, but if people feel that even with this patch it is still slow, reopen.

The problem has disappeared here on 0.9.4. There is also a nice pref to disable this behavior, so I guess it is safe to mark this as verified.

I think this should be reopend... (regression?) On my PII-266MHz/256MB/Linux 2.4.4/Gnome1.4/Sawfish with build 2001112308 typing in the locationbar is slow unless I turn autocomplete off.. This happens since a couple of days ago (as far as I can remember). Have not checked with previous builds. Will do that tomorrow.

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