Dreamweaver CC 2017 Slow

I guess the reason to slow performance is because of too many features. For examples;in code view, when mouse hover on the link address, DW tries to display image thumbnail.

This is useful, but slow down the system. Another things is after dw is closed and opened again, it re-opens the last-opened file. This can also delay starting up the program. But I like those features!

I think it need to remove some less used features because DW has to carry out many processes and queries at the same time, that slow down user experience.

Sorry for any mistake!

Just installed CC, Dreamweaver v18.0. I'd previously & very thoroughly uninstalled DW 5.5.

Performance is excruciating. Search & Replace of a single character in a 900 line file took well over a minute; I could watch the S&R actions happening in real time, 1-3 per second. Program becomes unresponsive with 5 files open. As a developer & a past user of Brackets, it seems likely the performance issues result from porting to JavaScript without attention to optimization.

Also, why does this page keep jumping to the top all the time?

I am having the same problem. Love the UI but just too slow. I am going to try brackets.

Dreamweaver has its charm for me. i have been using it since the release macromedia dreamweaver mx 2004. i think.. benefits which dreamweaver has for me is the integrated project manager with ftp and the design view. but with new 2017 version i`m nervous every day more and more. programming is very unpleasant. very unresponsive and slow. the code hinting who should help me, is holding me back. dreamweaver is now nothing more like many solutions in one and that is problem.. look at your task manager how much processes must running due to dreamweaver.

my option for new editor is atom.. but it does not have ftp integration (existed modules are not solution) and project manager missing..

This is an old thread but it seems that some users are still bothered by Dreamweaver's performance.  My solution to the problem may not be what my fellow Dreamweaver users want to hear but I actually moved away from using Dreamweaver altogether.  Instead I've moved on to a commercial IDE called Intellij IDEA.  When I first moved over to IDEA I was pretty indimidated by the interface and all the menus.  IDEA definitely does not hold your hand through web design/development like Dreamweaver does.  However after using it for 2+ years now I can safely say that it is by far the best web development tool I have ever used, especially if you do any type of ColdFusion (CFML) or JavasScript development.

One way you can think of an IDE is that it is like Dreamweaver except there is no "design view".  Instead, you will need a web browser to preview your pages to see what they actually look like.  However, IDEA does have a deployment feature which works like Dreameweaver's FTP functionality and will allow you to sync your files with one or more remote web servers. 

There are other IDEs available as well, Eclipse, CF Builder (basically Eclipse with an Adobe skin), and others.  However after experimenting with many different ones I decided to stick with IDEA.

If you're experiencing Dreamweaver performance problems perhaps it means that you've graduated beyond building basic web pages in HTML and are ready for a more robust solution.  IDEs may not be for everyone but I know that they have really taken my web apps to the next level, taught me a lot about coding best-practices, and helped keep all my web projects organized.

Any solution? I am going to give up using it. it is so slow. it takes 2 minutes when I open a file to load and then for each editing the cursor disappears for some seconds seems completely freezed...

Please help...

Two more clues I would like to add are Microsoft Office and Rocket Dock.  At the office I have Outlook 2017 (From MS Office 365) and when I close out of that the Dreamweaver delay is greatly reduced - I'd say to a mere 3-5 seconds of system hang.  I am suspicious of Outlook because I've felt before it was impeding Illustrator in much the same way, if to a lesser extent.  And Outlook has its sticky little fingers watching all sorts of things in the background, including network resources.

I run Rocket Dock both at home and office, however when the problem at the office arises I can make it go away by restarting Rocket Dock from task manager and making sure Outlook is down.  So the Rocket Dock launcher could be a catalyzing factor in conjunction with Outlook.  When I restart Rocket Dock then in the system the Dreamweaver process is no longer spawned by Rocket Dock and the memory Rocket Dock holds is released.  It never affects me at home, but like I said maybe this is a catalyst for the resource war with Outlook and (Dreamweaver, Illustrator, etc.)

My machine is a 64 bit quad AMD A-8 with 32GB of ram running the onboard GPU.  The machine at home with no problem is even older and has less ram.

I have the program both at home and at the office.  It's painfully slow at the office but it's just fine at home.  I'm doing code only so I'm using DW for a glorified text editor, basically.  At the office I had to install Atom because it does the same thing and DW is literally locking up my system, i.e. Windows every time I save a file or open a file.  For instance, I'm a habitual Alt-Tab window switcher and when I hit CTRL-S to save a tiny file in DW and then hit Alt-Tab over to Filezilla, the preview windows for fast-switching literally hang on my screen for 7-10 seconds until DW completes.  Obviously Windows shouldn't let Adobe crush the system like that, but I feel this is a clue to the root cause.

Some things that are different with my office installation may be relevant.  I'm on a domain login and I have network resources on the machine even though I have specifically excluded them for DW.  Only one site is defined and that is a local one.  I have nothing except code in my files.  I can tell DW is parsing image references and whatnot because it will pull thumbnails for hardcoded images in my code.  But I don't see how that could impact file save/open operations.  I suspect there's a problem in playing nice with a background resource scheduler in Windows.

Deleting the cache and even the full user settings folder did not help.

Yeah it's slow for me, too. CS5 works faster for me than DWCC. The Live-Preview pisses me off so much, too.

I am using Dreamweaver CC 2017 on a 16GB RAM MacBook 2014 i7 with 2GB Nvida graphics and struggling to preview a 9 file website without the scroll or css animations lagging in safari preview. Possible cause?