[Koha] Saving MARC records very slow

[Nicole Engard]

Has anyone tried Firefox 3.5?  It's still in beta, but is supposed to
have a much better response time.  Just curious :)

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Nicole C. Engard
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Owen Leonard<oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
>> This was covered on the list a while back -- in Firefox it was taking
>> 40-50 s on our staff clients to save records.
>>
>> I don't believe a diagnosis or fix were ever found for the Firefox issue.
>
> It's not a Firefox issue per se, it's a JavaScript issue. When you
> save a MARC record Koha uses JavaScript to validate all the fields in
> the entry form--usually a lot of them! That takes time, and makes the
> browser appear unresponsive while it's processing. Chrome will be
> faster than Firefox 3 because its JavaScript parser is faster. But
> Firefox will be faster than Internet Explorer.
>
> So the solution isn't a browser-specific fix, but a general one of optimization.
>
>  -- Owen
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