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Reduce CPU usage in Camino during page loads
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Jun 01, '04 08:41:51PM

What I'm sure calyphi meant to say, but didn't have enough time at the moment, was:

-- You need the utility "Interface Builder". To get this, install Apple's "Developer Tools", which comes with your OS X installer CDs. If you have the OS 10.3 installer CDs, the fourth disk will be the XCode Tools CD--run the installer that's on that CD. If you choose to install everything, it will require about 700 meg of free space.
-- After the Developer Tools are installed, go to the Finder and open the window where the Camino application is located. Duplicate it so you have an unmodified copy after this process, in case something goes wrong. Then hold down the Control key while you click and hold on the Camino application icon--this will bring up a contextual menu; from this menu, select "Show package contents". Camino will open up as a series of folders. While still in the Finder, open the file at this path: Camino/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/BrowserWindow.nib. When you double-click on the file "BrowserWindow.nib", it will open in Interface Builder, as a window by that name.
-- In this window, there will be an icon named "Browser". Double click on it, and it will open a window titled "Bookmark toolbar" (I don't know why this is the window's title). At the lower right corner of this window, you'll see the barber pole progress indicator. Click on it once to select it, then press the Delete key to get rid of it.
-- Close the window for "BrowserWindow.nib"; Interface Builder will ask if you want to save the changes. Let it.
-- Go to the Finder and launch this modified copy of Camino. You should no longer see a barber pole progress indicator.

I tried this, and it does seem to have noticeably sped up my Camino page loads, though I have a slower Mac, a B&W G3 at 400 mhz--people with faster Macs might not notice a difference. I tried to find a similar thing in Internet Explorer, since I use it often too, to save entire web pages in a single file, which Camino doesn't do, but couldn't find a progress bar--Explorer's structure is almost entirely different--its programmers don't appear to have used the same sort of program-building tools that the Camino people use (not a surprise).



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Reduce CPU usage in Camino during page loads
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Jun 02, '04 05:36:59AM

Oops, those were the instructions on how to do what the original hint was describing. To change the barber pole into a spinning indicator, follow the same instructions, but instead of deleting the barber pole after you click on it, go up to Interface Builder's "Tools" menu and select "Show Info". This will open a window which will contain a popup, from which you can change "Bar" to "Spinning".



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