In article <618eb77954.andrew-...@waitrose.com>, Andrew Pinder <andrew.pin...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
[snip] > > Please read elsewhere in the thread. No recent changes have been made > > and in any event very few fonts have been installed originally, as a > > matter of principle, to avoid the kind of issues that you mention. > > Previous to the issue that I reported, following any initial scan, > > ages ago, when the scan window was clearly visible and quite slow, if > > there are subsequent scans then they are just so fast that no window > > is visible that I am aware of, just scrolling of the hourglass > > momentarily. > > So I have no explanation as to why scanning should become clearly > > visible of late and that is no longer so following a NetSurf update!?! > > Thanks for your comment anyway. > http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/ says "Notice: "At any given time > these builds may be broken, unstable, have verbose logging enabled, or > exhibit any other undesirable behaviour." Fairy nuff! I had forgotten, I've just got used to NetSurf being stable and well behaved of late. > I suspect that one of the NetSurf developers made a change that had the > undesirable side-effect of slowing down font scanning and has now made > another change that speeds it up again :-) That thought had occurred to me, but then it is the season of the year and a time of max stress. 8-) Best wishes Brian
