Hi,

After recently upgrading to build 5, I'm experiencing intermittent stability issues. I have no idea what is causing it (haven't seen a pattern yet), but occasionally Orca will become extremely sluggish for a few seconds, then eventually stop responding to any input. During this time, CPU maxes out at 25% across the cores, which makes sense as I'm quad-core and Orca is single-threaded (AFAIK). At this point, the Orca process must be killed. I will try to find a pattern, but in the meantime, has anyone else experienced stability issues?

Thanks,

No problems at all here. Have you tried removing all extensions/plugins?

Hi,

I'm not running any extensions; I haven't changed or upgraded my plugins lately, but I'll do some testing to see if there's a problem with one of them. I get the feeling Flash may be causing issues here, so I'll surf with it off for a while to see if that helps at all. Over the past couple of hours, Orca has locked up on me three times: once with two tabs open (Live/Hotmail and Facebook), once again with two tabs (Digg and Youtube), and once with just one tab (Digg comment thread).

Here's the error signature, if it helps at all:

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Description:
  A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   AppHangB1
  Application Name:   orca.exe
  Application Version:   1.2.0.5
  Application Timestamp:   4a84f070
  Hang Signature:   6731
  Hang Type:   2048
  OS Version:   6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Hang Signature 1:   9662f9016b54311b56a323ce2c660b16
  Additional Hang Signature 2:   ef82
  Additional Hang Signature 3:   2ed8cdacec08a5fe981981fe57710b96
  Additional Hang Signature 4:   6731
  Additional Hang Signature 5:   9662f9016b54311b56a323ce2c660b16
  Additional Hang Signature 6:   ef82
  Additional Hang Signature 7:   2ed8cdacec08a5fe981981fe57710b96


What do you get with the Version test for Adobe Flash Player and the Flash Movie Confirmation pages?

Hi,

Seems like I still had the old 10.0.22.87 build. I have upgraded to the latest (10.0.32.18, using the manual .xpi download and copy/paste into Orca plugins dir) - I'll see if that helps at all!

Thanks,

I've also noticed that from time to time, Orca becomes sluggish if I don't delete my browsing history/cache/blocked URLs, etc for a while (as I don't have any settings to clear them on exit). I cleared them just now and things are a bit more snappy. I'll keep testing

It may be a problem where Orca stores its cache files (usually slow with the USB edition). I set mine to the current user's temp folder, which I regularly clean out with CCleaner.

You can change the cache folder - go to about:config locate or create browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and set the string to like "C:\\TEMP\\ORCA\\CACHE"

confirm, 1.2.5 is unstable, switching between tabs sometimes hangs and ORCA does not react at all so i have to restart.
no extensions, all updates installed.


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when there will be update to 3.5.3 firefox engine ?