Despite the fact that IE renders slower than other browsers, we have done our best to try and improve the performance in IE for Confluence 3.1. Browser load times is quite difficult to measure, but we have seen improvements in our internal systems with our current development release. If users find that the performance of the edit page is still an issue in 3.1, please raise another ticket and we may revisit it again in 3.2.

Cheers,
Agnes

IE has a very slow JS engine. Firefox 3.5, Safari and Chrome all have much faster JS engines. That simply is just the nature of IE to render JS-heavy pages slowly.

Somayya,

Our practice at Atlassian is to set the issue to resolved when we commit the change during our development process. We are indeed aware that this does not correlate to when the new version is released. In this case, we are still pending the release of Confluence 3.1, which will contain this improvement.

The status of this issue is RESOLVED when the comments from Atlassian is that it is open. I have issue CSP-39639 open for the same issue, and we need someone to escalate this issue not treat as resolved when in fact it isnt. don't you agree.

We have decided to further address this by delaying the loading of the macro browser. The macro browser will only be loaded on the fist time it is opened.

I'm not convinced we can close this yet, reopening for at least more testing.

There is no simple workaround for this as it isn't a simple (or single) fix. Even worse, I may have to reopen this issue as the javascript tags will still be served in the header (due to plugin breakage) by default in 3.1. Instead there will be a configuration to turn on to serve the scripts at the bottom of the page. Eventually in a later release we will serve them at the bottom as the default.

I've also reported the issue with long load times when editing and was referred to this issue. This is going to delay our roll-out as first impressions are vital to the success. If you know of a work around or have an early deployment fix that will resolve this please let me know. Changing browsers is not possible.

Updating title to be a bit more generic.

Hi guys,

I have been investigating into this issue and believe the IE edit page slowness is due to a number of things introduced in 3.0. There will be a number of tasks I will be looking at doing, so here is an update of what will be done for 3.1:

Javascript tags will be moved to the bottom of the page

See CONF-12329.
CSS will continue to stay at the top, so pages will 'appear' to load faster. This should also help on the edit page.

IE6 404s for some images

We will be fixing the 404s returned by some images served in css files (due to usage of relative urls).

Optimize the macro browser javascript

I actually did find that rendering of the macro browser contributing to the edit page slowness in IE, so the script will be optimized.

Sprite image for macro browser icons

This should greatly reduce the number of requests made to the server.

Cheers,
Agnes