Platform update May 15th - speed improvements

There is an update tomorrow afternoon, this will be dealing with speed and memory issues:

These are the improvements we should be expecting:

• Chrome showed an 18% reduction in memory usage.
• Firefox showed a 15% increase performance. Memory usage was not significantly different.
• IE9 was very similar to Firefox - pages also load about 15% faster.
• IE8 showed improvements in both memory usage and performance, with a 25% reduction in memory usage and 35% increase in performance. IE8's load times are a full second faster now (from 2700ms to 1750ms)!

IE 8 & 9 users should see the biggest improvement.

For Chrome and FF, its the javascript stuff that should load a little faster.

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Originally Posted by kevin1612 

but do have in the search bar 'search hotstackmarketdiscussions'
screws up my search when i click in bar and have to erase that phrase

That text should disappear when you click in that box to write something. What browser are you using?

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Originally Posted by kevin1612 

and i just posted in 'my heads up' thread and in the recent posts its shows as the AMOT thread title lol

I just posted in your heads up thread and it shows up fine.

Can you replicate that error?

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Originally Posted by kevin1612 


no..it doesnt disappear...i have to erase it
IE8

It must be an IE8 issue, this platform is designed and optimized for the latest browser versions, so issues like the one you mentioned can be expected for older browsers.

Did you not have this problem before? That text was always there.

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Originally Posted by kevin1612 


didnt have an issue...yes it would clear when i clicked in search

Testing in IE9, its ok in there.

Ill see if there is something the engineers can do.