A question about FF3b5

Has anyone else had trouble with slow 'select all' (control-a) on this 
release?  It seems to take up to 2 minutes to do a select all on a long 
text documents (1 meg).  This causes some delays when I download and 
save long fanfiction stories.

-- 

Ron Hunter wrote:
> Has anyone else had trouble with slow 'select all' (control-a) on this 
> release?  It seems to take up to 2 minutes to do a select all on a long 
> text documents (1 meg).  This causes some delays when I download and 
> save long fanfiction stories.
> 

"Mortman"...
> Ron Hunter wrote:
>> Has anyone else had trouble with slow 'select all' (control-a) on this

>> release?  It seems to take up to 2 minutes to do a select all on a long

>> text documents (1 meg).  This causes some delays when I download and 
>> save long fanfiction stories.
>> 
> Isn't Select All (Ctl-A) a windows function rather than FF?

Hi Mortman,
It is something common to many applications and if there is a shortcut
in another application that does has that shortcut it is generally going to
be made the same as what people are used to, so  a lot of applications
many of the same shortcuts and the good ones can all be done with
the left hand.

Hi Ron,
I can't imagine Ctrl+A  using a lot of memory.  I suppose it might
be saving a formatted and a plain text version to the clipboard(s),
though until you commit it to the clipboard (Ctrl+C) that shouldn't matter.

What is your cache size and what is the url of  a page that takes you
a long time.   ????      Have you tried running in Safe Mode, which
disables Themes and  Extensions.   If you have the keyconfig extension
do you see anything else also assigned  Ctrl+A     How many tabs do
you have open,   certainly not be the time to have 50 tabs open with
large page sizes.

My machine has 2 GB memory,  my  firefox.htm  page is 
395.02 KB (404,503 bytes) as seen in Tools, Page Info.
My cache is   200MB        (Tool, Options, Advanced, Network).
More complete information on my system can be seen at
 http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/infolister_listing_fx2.htm

-- 
HTH,
David McRitchie,   extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom:  http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm
 

of course I might have pointed you to a different page describing
my system had you included  FF3b5 in the text body.  The subject
is not part of the question.