I am sure this is a known issue - but the internal help browser is very slow and often unresponsive.
I have been using external help just fine...
Does this happen for everyone?
Just wondering....
Thanks for any insight
Internal Documentation Browser Extremely Slow
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Yes, it is very slow for years now on any OS I think. I hope the developers will address this issue and also turn the background dark.
At the moment some users fix it for themselves, but it's definitely not very welcoming.
At the moment some users fix it for themselves, but it's definitely not very welcoming.
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Still broken here, windows 10 and osx, 18.5.
Watching the help page load for the 'labs flowmap visualize' sop, 2 mins so far. Video playbar is there, but no video. All the little icons for the rest of the sops in the left-hand nav bar are slooowly loading in, I assume once they finish, the video will appear.
*time passes*
Nope, no video. Frustrating.
Watching the help page load for the 'labs flowmap visualize' sop, 2 mins so far. Video playbar is there, but no video. All the little icons for the rest of the sops in the left-hand nav bar are slooowly loading in, I assume once they finish, the video will appear.
*time passes*
Nope, no video. Frustrating.
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Still broken here, windows 10 and osx, 18.5.
Watching the help page load for the 'labs flowmap visualize' sop, 2 mins so far. Video playbar is there, but no video. All the little icons for the rest of the sops in the left-hand nav bar are slooowly loading in, I assume once they finish, the video will appear.
*time passes*
Nope, no video. Frustrating.
Is it only slow for 3rd party help pages with video? I don't recall using any help pages with embedded video, nor do I have labs installed. Perhaps 3rd party plugin help doesn't get indexed the way the native help does.
The slow icons in the sidebar behavior I haven't seen since 17.5. I remember it used to be really slow until it parsed all the icons, but since 18.0 it does some indexing on the first launch that speeds it up. Having the help folder in config stored on fast storage helps a lot. You can keep the rest of your home folder on the network though.
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I`ve been using external browser and it`s been fine for me H17 and up. Here is my setup for it via packages. Hope that helps!Image Not Found,
Thanks for this. I had to alter it a bit for me to work:
{"HOUDINI_EXTERNAL_HELP_BROWSER" :[ { "value": "1", "method": "replace" }]
Edited by MikasSadas - Jan. 28, 2021 03:53:38
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Konstantin MagnusHOUDINI_EXTERNAL_HELP_BROWSER = 1 //works fine for me
Yes, it is very slow for years now on any OS I think. I hope the developers will address this issue and also turn the background dark.
At the moment some users fix it for themselves, but it's definitely not very welcoming.
You can force Dark Mode in Chrome via "chrome://flags" and enable "Force Dark Mode for Web Contents".
Same goes for the new chromium-based Edge browser, Again, "edge://flags/" and enable "Force Dark Mode for Web Contents". Play around with "Enable selective inversion of everything" or other options instead of default settings to tweak it to your needs.
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