Article:		Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Mac OS X
Subject:		Performance Issues Are Problematic
Date:		2004-01-14 09:26:26
From:		anonymous2
Response to: Performance Issues Are Problematic
The speed problems have been reported since the initial release of Dreamweaver MX 2004 and still have not been addressed. (There have been updates to the other applications within the MX 2004 suite, but not Dreamweaver.) Even trying to edit one of the supplied templates (the CSS page with various navigation elements) is horribly slow. When typing text it takes anywhere from 3-5 seconds for each keypress to finally display on the screen. My machine is at the low end of the system requirements (600mhz G3) however I have heard similar reports from users with G5 machines. I have reported this to Macromedia, the support rep duplicated my issue, yet I was still sent to the same web page to submit my issues regarding the problem. This page has been up for months now.

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• Performance Issues Are Problematic
  2004-01-15 17:54:34  cjennings [Reply | View]
  
  
  One of the reasons that you haven't seen a patch for Dreamweaver yet is the fact that we've decided to spend more time gathering our customer complaints and fixing much more of them.
  
  This patch should be available in several more weeks since it's in the final testing/validation phase right now. I think you'll be much happier with the performance and stability of the product as well as the number of issues we've corrected.
  
  How do I know? I work on the team (in fact I'm ordering dinner for a long evening right after I hit the submit button). :)
  
  -- Craig Jennings

• Performance Issues Are Problematic
  2004-01-14 13:11:00  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  I too used MX04, until I just could not take it anymore. The app would at times crash, but worse was the response times to the opening of files,creating,editing CSS. Forget trying to move quickly in the app, and updating templates or library items. It is just too slow. I had to reinstall MX 6 and use the update(6.1) and everything was again snappy and stable. The biggest complaint is that I use code view in most all the site I build, and that was just as slothful.
  NOTE: If you use v6 stick with it until Macromedia gets on the ball with the problems with MX04.