FF.au3 slowness

[molotofc]

It seems ff.au3 (or mozrepl I'm not sure which is causing it) is really slow.

For example, the below script:

_FFStart()
Send("^t^t^t^t^t")
; opens 5 new tabs

Send("^t^t^t^t^t") opens the 5 new tabs pretty much instantly, whereas:

_FFStart()
_FFTabAdd(default,true,false)
_FFTabAdd(default,true,false)
_FFTabAdd(default,true,false)
_FFTabAdd(default,true,false)
_FFTabAdd(default,true,false)
; opens 5 new tabs

is a lot slower, typically around 1.5 seconds between each new tab is created. I thought it may be the third option of _FFTabAdd which is $LoadWait but I've already set that as False as you can see.

I don't know what the delay is.

Here is the console output if I use _FFTabAdd:

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__FFStartProcess: ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -new-window "about:blank"  "-repl 4242 "
_FFConnect: OS: WIN_2008R2 WIN32_NT 7601 Service Pack 1
_FFConnect: AutoIt: 3.3.12.0
_FFConnect: FF.au3: 0.6.0.1b-10
_FFConnect: IP: 127.0.0.1
_FFConnect: Port: 4242
_FFConnect: Delay:  2ms
_FFConnect: Socket:  452
_FFConnect: Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
__FFSendJavaScripts: Sending functions to FireFox .......... done
_FFLoadWait: . loaded in 13ms
[object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
__FFSend: try{gBrowser.selectedTab = gBrowser.addTab('about:blank')}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: [object XULElement] - {linkedBrowser: {...}, _tPos: 1, closing: false, label: "New Tab", visibleLabel: "New Tab", pinned: false, hidden: false, ...}
__FFSend: FFau3.WCD=window.content.top.document;
__FFRecv: [object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
[object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
__FFSend: try{gBrowser.selectedTab = gBrowser.addTab('about:blank')}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: [object XULElement] - {linkedBrowser: {...}, _tPos: 2, closing: false, label: "New Tab", visibleLabel: "New Tab", pinned: false, hidden: false, ...}
__FFSend: FFau3.WCD=window.content.top.document;
__FFRecv: [object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
[object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
__FFSend: try{gBrowser.selectedTab = gBrowser.addTab('about:blank')}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: [object XULElement] - {linkedBrowser: {...}, _tPos: 3, closing: false, label: "New Tab", visibleLabel: "New Tab", pinned: false, hidden: false, ...}
__FFSend: FFau3.WCD=window.content.top.document;
__FFRecv: [object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
[object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
__FFSend: try{gBrowser.selectedTab = gBrowser.addTab('about:blank')}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: [object XULElement] - {linkedBrowser: {...}, _tPos: 4, closing: false, label: "New Tab", visibleLabel: "New Tab", pinned: false, hidden: false, ...}
__FFSend: FFau3.WCD=window.content.top.document;
__FFRecv: [object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
[object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
__FFSend: try{gBrowser.selectedTab = gBrowser.addTab('about:blank')}catch(e){'_FFCmd_Err';};
__FFRecv: [object XULElement] - {linkedBrowser: {...}, _tPos: 5, closing: false, label: "New Tab", visibleLabel: "New Tab", pinned: false, hidden: false, ...}
__FFSend: FFau3.WCD=window.content.top.document;
__FFRecv: [object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
[object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
+>02:01:59 AutoIt3.exe ended.rc:0
+>02:01:59 AutoIt3Wrapper Finished.
>Exit code: 0    Time: 11.98

and compare that to of the console output if using Send("^t^t^t^t^t"):

__FFStartProcess: ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -new-window "about:blank"  "-repl 4242 "
_FFConnect: OS: WIN_2008R2 WIN32_NT 7601 Service Pack 1
_FFConnect: AutoIt: 3.3.12.0
_FFConnect: FF.au3: 0.6.0.1b-10
_FFConnect: IP: 127.0.0.1
_FFConnect: Port: 4242
_FFConnect: Delay:  2ms
_FFConnect: Socket:  448
_FFConnect: Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
__FFSendJavaScripts: Sending functions to FireFox .......... done
_FFLoadWait: . loaded in 16ms
[object XrayWrapper [object HTMLDocument]] - {location: {...}, getElementsByName: function() {...}, getItems: function() {...}, open: function() {...}, close: function() {...}, write: function() {...}, writeln: function() {...}, ...}
+>02:02:32 AutoIt3.exe ended.rc:0
+>02:02:32 AutoIt3Wrapper Finished.
>Exit code: 0    Time: 5.1

I can't use Send because it's a remote machine. Is there anything I can do by getting _FFTabAdd to perform at the speed it should?

Edited February 11, 2015 by molotofc

[Danp2]

There will inherently be additional overhead from the back and forth communication between your script, MozRepl and FireFox. You may want to try changing the second parameter of _FFTabAdd to False, since you probably don't need to select each tab as it is being added.

Looking at the internal operations of _FFTabAdd, there's a built-in 1 second delay each time it is successfully called, so it looks like that is where the bulk of the delay is coming from.

[molotofc]

I see. How am I able to remove this built in 1 second delay?

[Danp2]

You could create your own custom version of _FFTabAdd and use that instead. You could also try the following instead of _FFTabAdd:

_FFCmd("gBrowser.loadOneTab('about:blank',null,null,null,true)", 3000)

This should open a new tab without the additional overhead of _FFTabAdd.