Subject: Re: [Witch Talk] witch hanging on Chrome

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:26:34 -0700

On May 30, 2013, at 10:37 AM, David Rees <[email-masked]> wrote:

> I do have click to play turned on, but I do agree its a Chrome 
> responsiveness problem. I had thought that the Application Timeout would 
> handle that though. Am I missing something about what how its supposed to 
> work? 

It's supposed to, but it seems Flash is somehow messing it up. We know it's annoying, but we haven't found a short-term fix.

Sorry;
-rob.

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From: David Rees <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:37:26 -0700 (PDT)

d 

On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:55:25 AM UTC-7, Many Tricks wrote:
>
> On Apr 30, 2013, at 11:53 AM, David Rees <[email-masked] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>
> > Quitting Chrome seems to fix the problem, but that really isn't an 
> option 
> > for me. If I bring up the Chrome Task Manager I may sometimes see that 
> some 
> > sites are using CPU 10-30% (but its still a fraction). 
>
> I'm guessing the pages you're loading have Flash on them; there's 
> something about Flash and Chrome that causes Chrome to not respond to 
> Witch's request for its window list. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can 
> do about this. You might try using a "click to play" Flash add-on, as Flash 
> then won't run until summoned. But short of that, we can't make Witch 
> handle this any better in the short term. (Long term, there may be a way, 
> but it'll have to be done in a major update that reworks the entire Witch 
> engine.) 
>
> regards, 
> -rob.

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From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:55:25 -0700

On Apr 30, 2013, at 11:53 AM, David Rees <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Quitting Chrome seems to fix the problem, but that really isn't an option 
> for me. If I bring up the Chrome Task Manager I may sometimes see that some 

I'm guessing the pages you're loading have Flash on them; there's something about Flash and Chrome that causes Chrome to not respond to Witch's request for its window list. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about this. You might try using a "click to play" Flash add-on, as Flash then won't run until summoned. But short of that, we can't make Witch handle this any better in the short term. (Long term, there may be a way, but it'll have to be done in a major update that reworks the entire Witch engine.)

regards,
-rob.

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From: David Rees <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:53:24 -0700 (PDT)

I am running into an ongoing problem with Witch hanging on Chrome. I have 
the Application Timeout set to 100ms, but it can occasionally take seconds 
(sometimes many seconds) for Witch to display. It's been happening for over 
a month, sometimes it gets to the point where Witch is just not usable. 

Mac app switching, mission control, etc all work lightning fast...

Thanks, 

d