Text editor extremely slow

Bug reported:
https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/32197

@rowd1951 The problem is with the emoji script, but not just with that script. Note that the problem also disappears if you turn off the “Enable full-height editor and distraction-free functionality.” setting. It’s a combo deal. The issue might be better remedied by fixing whatever in that code is causing the emoji code to trigger for the full post on every keypress.

Ok, thanks.

Following a look at comments made by others among the submitted tickets, I note that this problem isn’t restricted solely to Chrome, either.

It’s nice to know that it is indeed a bug, as I claimed yesterday to a sceptical reception – which included outright denials that it was not a bug!

It’s nice to know that it is indeed a bug, as I claimed yesterday to a sceptical reception – which included outright denials that it was not a bug!

We didn’t know it was a bug until we did the troubleshooting to get to the point where we found out what it was.

Sorry about that, but most of spend all day dealing with people where things like a spotty café internet connection somehow equals a bug in WordPress, so we like to work things down to a specific cause before we start using terminology like “bug”.

Thanks for participation in that!

Hello,

Anyone having problems with large posts ? My text editor is dead slow and its completely irritating. Never happened with old version of wordpress that i know. Disabled emoji and stopped all plugins but its still slow.

Does anyone care to fix it ? After 7 months no update for this bug ?

Hi @hdalive,

The original bug, https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/32197, was fixed. Could you open a new thread per the Forum Welcome?

Thanks!

Hi, as Brandon says, the bug was fixed for me and others at the time (or shortly after) with a patch.

It was a strange one, sort of a quasi Chrome/Wordpress bug/non-bug!

It was reported on my behalf to Chrome whose tech guys (I believe) recognised the ‘issue’ but said it’s not a bug with Chrome but admitted that it was only specific to their browser because of some formation/order of coding they use which processes typed text differently to other browsers.

Via its patch, WordPress changed the way some text was handled or something like that, which eradicated the problem.

So in layman’s terms I believe a change to WP or Chrome could have sorted it, I’m not sure if Chrome ever made any changes to ameliorate this ‘issue’ but WP did with its patch relatively quickly.

So, sorry for your problem but this one is resolved!

Thanks for the recap, rowd1951! ??

I’m not sure if Chrome ever made any changes to ameliorate this ‘issue’

They did. I reported it to them, they fixed it. Took them a couple of months, but the problem is considered solved.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=482998

Where is the patch ? I have latest chrome, firefox and wordpress 4.4 & theme install. What do i miss.

If you have the latest Chrome installed, then you don’t have this problem. The issue was fixed in Chrome 45, Chrome is currently at 47.0.2526.106.

I recommend opening your own thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform