malcsimm

I like it too and have used it on a dozen or more blogs for years. However, my host just took down my whole account (11 addon domains) because one Simple Tags install on one blog was nearly causing the (shared) server to stop.

In view of krisisdnd’s comment, I will be re-thinking my tagging strategy. Can’t afford to have 11 sites taken down. And no notice at all ?? Good job I wasn’t on two weeks’ holiday.

Having talked to their support, I actually don’t blame the host.

Malc

Hi all

Found the thread – and the Google Libraries thing worked for me like magic – on two different blogs, two different hosts. Prior to that I had tried deactivating all plugins, and hard-clearing cache, with no result.

Think I will wait a while before I update any more blogs!

Thanks for the info – and sorry for the person it’s not working for ??

Cheers

Malc

Hi Rok – if you are still there. I have heard nothing further from you. And Zemanta is still make Save on the edit screen take forever on my blogs – 5 different blogs on 3 different hosts.

Any progress on this?

It does not take forever EVERY time. But when it does, I go off an do something for ten minutes, then when I come back it’s either finally saved, or I have to abandon my edit, diable Zemanta, then come back at which point it all saves fine. Or I open up a second login screen on the plugins page so I can disable Z without leavingt the edit screen.

Nice plugin – but this aspect of it is a real pain.

Thanks

Malc

Hey Rok

Thanks for your concern, empathy, and fast comment. UR right – it is a real pain, as I am full time in IM, and I might edit dozens of posts in a day. Anyway, your response made me do a bit of testing, which revealed a few things.

First, yes, Zemanta does slow down browsers – for me, FF and IE. Second, there appears to be a plugin conflict on FF which slows it down even more – almost to a halt sometimes.

FYI, here are my plugins: https://heymalc.com/images/ffaddons.JPG

On to my testing. With plugins enabled I noticed that Z often stumbles when looking for the editor. It displays: “Finding editor…”, then quite often, “Gave up on finding editor. Retry.” This could still be hanging 3 or more minutes later. The FF bottom bar is reading “read fstatic.zemanta.com” all this time. This happens frequently to me.

So, step 1 was to disable all FF addons. I did this.

The remaining tests were done:

1. FF (no addons) with Z
2. FF (no addons) w/o Z
3. FF with addons and w/o Z
4. IE with Z
5. IE w/o Z

Results, in seconds until either Z displayed images, or (w/o Z) blue bar completed:

1. 21,12,20,18,14,18
2. 10,8,10,12,9
3. 10,9,8,7,11
4. 28,16,30,15,16
5. 8,6,6,7,7

It is pretty clear to me that Z slows down IE and FF at least for me – FF takes nearly twice as long to save, IE 3 times as long. In addition, it conflicts with one or more of my addons to compound the issue. I will have to find out which one.

**My Computer** – I am running:
Pentium quad core
4 x SDDs in parallel with RAID 1
8 meg RAM
Windows 7 64 bit
FF 3.6.16
IE 8.0.7600.16385

In summary: thanks for making me check this – as I will now hunt down the offending addon! Once found, it will mean that I will at least be able to function with Zemanta. However, it is clear that it slows down browsing for me quite considerably.

Hope this is constructive, and if I can help further, let me know here or, probably better, at malc (at) heymalc.com.

I think Zemanta is a great idea and I do recommend it to my students as well as using it myself. I hope you can resolve the reduction in browser performance, in which case I could recommend it even more heartily.

Best

Malc

Fantastic – thx grfxboy and MichaelH for the pointer to his post – this worked for me.

Have now completed “WordPress 60-minute-+hair-pulled-out install”.

Without your help could have been much longer… ??

Malc