PC editor freezes on long posts

  • sweden1

    (@sweden1)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    I have written WP blog on the phone for a long time and created many long pages. Now that I try to edit them on a PC, the editor freezes or becomes extremely slow with >10 seconds to move the cursor or to enter text. I recently bought a new PC with “gaming specs” but the problem persists.

    I have tried Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers. I have tried setting Chrome into “phone mode” which occasionally helps but usually to no avail. I believe the associated developer functions then load down the computer.

    I believe the phone can edit the pages because WP delivers a simpler page to the phone than to the PC. Long pages I can not edit on the PC.

    I think the editor I always use is called the “classic editor”. I use it in text mode, never visual. In the phone I don’t use the app so often, I just run the editor off the admin web page, like the PC.

    How can I please edit the long pages on the PC, and not only on the phone?

    Thanks to the developers, BTW. WP has been really fantastic during the the three years I have written blog. Everything is there, simple and quick, just to write and insert images and links (search function for links is great).

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    Your PC may have awesome resources, but that does not mean they are all allocated to the browser in which you’re editing. Assuming this is a Windows machine, use its task manager to identify what is tying up resources and making the editor unresponsive. It sounds like the browser may not have enough memory allocated, but it’s a wild guess. It could just be an unrelated background task.

    Thread Starter sweden1

    (@sweden1)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    I have the same problem in an older computer. Exactly the same problem in that computer, both for Windows 10 and Linux/Ubuntu (tha latter not maintained). I am very happy with my new computer which is just “play gaming” (Ryzen7, 16 GB RAM, but I don’t game) but should be enough. One reason for buying it was that I was hoping to fix this problem.

    To me this looks OK, but I am no expert. I would not like to tweak the system register randomly.

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    I must say, looking at the situation as a whole, I would expect more people to experience this problem. I couldn’t find any rules for how long pages you could create. (The pages always display well to the visitor in any browser.)

    I attribute it to the phone receiving a simpler version of WP. I would appreciate if that would be available also to the PC.

    I believe I have seen similar things editing text before, not only in WP, but not so pronouncedly. Spelling check gets slow or even cursor movement slow at the bottom of long forms.

    The two things I can do right now are to edit the older pages on a phone and I have also started trying Opera browser which seems to work better, but I haven’t explored it fully yet.

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    Thread Starter sweden1

    (@sweden1)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    … I now remember the same problem appearing slightly also in Chrome browser in the phone about a year or so ago. I believe I then switched to Opera browser in the phone which improved the situation. But later the problem disappeared in Chrome, I attributed it to updating of Chrome, and I went back to Chrome in the phone.

    But maybe some members here could make a simple experiment: Use Chrome browser for PC and edit a dummy page in WP. Just gradually make it longer by doubling its size by copy and paste, save the page and try to edit the bottom part of it. Keep making it longer and see at which size it will not edit well at the bottom?

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    Your task manager shows 21 tabs or windows open in Chrome. Depending on what those are, they could have performance impacts. There does appear to be adequate resources available though. Do you experience the issue on a freshly booted machine and using Chrome’s incognito mode, then editing a long document?

    The mobile editor version is simpler only in graphical presentation. The resources needed to run the editor are still significant.

    Just how long is this problematic page anyway? Somewhat beside the issue at hand, but from a site design standpoint, extremely long pages are generally discouraged. FWIW I found reasonable performance in a 500k word document. I stopped adding content at that point. My computer is nothing special, but it’s certainly better than basic budget builds.

    Thread Starter sweden1

    (@sweden1)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    I don’t think the figure 21 represents tabs or windows in Chrome (I had 4-5 open tabs). Now I opened two tabs after rebooting and get the figure 8:

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    Can not open WP admin in incognito mode. WP says this page has 32.000 words.

    Maybe it is possible to edit the first seconds before the problem arises. But I am not sure.

    I am starting to suspect the spell checking in Chrome web forms. I don’t know which program supplies it but I get red lines under typos. I believe I have seen this before in many systems to varying degree but now it is causing significant problems.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    3 years, 11 months ago

    Something is amiss if incognito mode doesn’t work. Maybe something about your security settings and cookie retention.

    I’m not a serious Windows user, I guess that number is the count of processes spawned. Related to tabs open, but not directly. Still impacts performance, but possibly somewhat beyond your control.

    Spell check is a good thought for the culprit. Disable grammar check if you have it on. The spell check can be set to only check on demand instead of automatically — I think. Do that or turn it off entirely as a test.

    If pasting in more content counts as editing for more than a few seconds, I’m unable to replicate your experience. However, the content I pasted in contained no spelling errors. There was a brief 1/2 second delay after pasting a large block of text, but response was normal afterwards.

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