Important Firefox Update!

This is an important update for any of our customers using the Firefox 3.5.x web browser. A bug was recently identified in Firefox that caused Firefox to drastically slow down when a page contained a large amount of JavaScript.

This applies to many pages throughout ProWorkflow and in some cases can give the impression that the browser has crashed.

This bug has been fixed in Firefox version 3.5.2 (and v3.0.13) so we ask that any affected customers use the “Check for Updates” feature found in the “Help” menu of Firefox to download the latest version. Any customers who have downloaded Firefox since the new release will not need to take any action.
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We are always looking for ways to improve the speed of ProWorkflow. We add enhancements in this area on a regular basis but improving performance on the server-side is only one part of the story.

For a typical web page, only around 20% of the time taken to “load” the page is spent downloading the actual content. The rest of the time is spent by the browser processing the content so it can display it correctly. With complex pages like those used within ProWorkflow, this processing time can be quite significant so we have the following advice:

1) If you are using Internet Explorer then consider trying Firefox or Google Chrome which both typically process web pages much faster.

2) Always use the latest version of your browser as this will often improve speed as well as fixing bugs such as the Firefox JavaScript bug above.

Tags: Browser, Firefox Issue, Fix, proworkflow, speed