TablePress Extension: Responsive Tables Safari Memory Leaks

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

The scroll mode of the TablePress Responsive Tables Extension is only a bit of CSS, so there’s nothing really that could cause a memory leak. More likely, the browser simply is busy with updating the rendering, due to other complex calculations.

I’ll gladly take a look, but I can’t promise anything here, I’m afraid. To get in touch, please send me an email then. The address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php”.

Regards,
Tobias

Hey,

Thanks for your answer.

I went through extensive testing and you’re right; it’s only a bit of CSS.
Whenever overflow-y is used the problem does appear.

Although my page has 6000 DOM elements (Elementor…), when I remove overflow-y the page is very smooth with no crash, so it must be some kind of bugs related to Safari likely to be re-rendering the whole page instead of the element with overflow-y… just a guess, and another tricky bug for sure.

Do you know of any Javascript that could replace using overflow-y for scrolling horizontally on an element? Sparing myself having to do it… aaaaa…

Thanks still!

Hi,

thanks for looking into this some more! Yes, this is very odd, indeed.

As an alternative, you could maybe try the JS-based horizontal scrolling that comes with the DataTables JS library. Just enable it via the “Horizontal Scrolling” checkbox on the table’s “Edit” screen.

Regards,
Tobias

Actually it is the overflow property as a whole, so sadly, the problem is still occurring.

As I understand, the overflow property triggers the scrollbar for an element.
I can’t think of any tricks using Javascript that can replicate the overflow concept. Maybe do you?

This is the worst bug I could come across, even if it were to get fixed in the next Safari version, all the older iOS are stuck with that bug, I need to find a workaround… damnn!!

Hi,

no, sorry, I can’t think of other possibilities here either ??

Note that quite a few people are using this Extension, but I haven’t received similar reports. This could mean that something on your site (in a theme or plugin) could be involved with this. I could for example imagine that some JavaScript code is maybe constantly being notified of a “scroll” event and that this freezes the resources.

Regards,
Tobias

I already went through extensive testing through disabling alot of stuffs except Elementor itself, or at least parts of it.

I forgot to try one thing which I just tried and I found that it is related to custom headers and footers managed by Elementor! It works smoothly without these features enabled. (you mentioned theme and I was only thinking about plugins initially)

Since I got Elementor Pro I’ll try to get some support but honestly – no big expectation, might just stick to customizing the theme itself.

My bad for posting in the wrong place!

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Hi,

no worries, all good! Great to hear that you were able to narrow it down! Hopefully, you can find a work around!

Best wishes,
Tobias