Dreamweaver CC 2017 Slow

[krestenb69596302]

Hi,

Am i the only one that experiences that the new Dreamweaver is extremely slow. When i open a standard bootstrap 3 design, i takes 7 seconds to open. And when the document is opened, it lags when i scroll in the source code - I only view source code - no preview/WYSIWYG. It feels lagging as if you start windows in safe mode without driver for graphic adapter.

I installed Dreamweaver CC2015.3 It opens the same document in 1 second. No lag and as fast as you would expect an text editor to be 🙂

Is it just my setup? or is anyone else have the same issues?

Im using a 8 core Xeon with GTX1060 graphic adapter.

[Dogvan]

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.

[Aazam]

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...

[Homestar9]

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.

[Netoper]

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..

[philm74466920]

I think I may have found the problem.  I sent this information to the developers, but this is how I'm working around the problem with both Sierra and High Sierra...

There seems to be a problem with the Workspace configuration file.  When you first install Dreamweaver on the Mac it is very fast, works great.  As soon as you quit and restart Dreamweaver, it slows back down to a crawl.  I did some research in the 2018 preferences and found that the problem is the Workspace XML file.  In my case the file is called Standard.xml.  If you quit Dreamweaver and delete the XML file, then start up Dreamweaver it's fast again.  Will stay this way until you quit, then the problem returns. 

I did some more research and I think I found the problem, although not sure why it's happening.  See the following line in the XML...

<application colorIcon="true" maximize="false" rect="-1 22 2559 1365"/>

Maximize is set to false.  If I change this to "true" and then start Dreamweaver it runs fast.  Once you quit, the XML file is updated and maximize is set back to 'false'.  Then when you boot up Dreamweaver it's slow again.

Another workaround... when in Dreamweaver, simply change the size of the window to a smaller size, then maximize it.  Then Dreamweaver is fast again until the next time you reboot.

[Niharika Jha]

Hi,

I was trying the performance issues that you guys are reporting on MAC- 10.12 and 10.13, can the users please provide the following details-

1. using iMAC or MACBook?

2. Some sample files where they actually see that Dw freezes for quite some time- should be medium sized files?

3. first launch Dw by clearing Preferences, quit Dw and then do successive launches of Dw- do you see any performance degradation on launch?

4. Do you see any performance degradation when you leave Dw open for quite some time ~1 hr and then come back?

5. Can you share the workspace snapshot of Dw so that we can see the panels/toolbars that you have enabled?

6. Do you have any other heavy apps running like xcode or some other IDE while Dw is running?

Regards,

Niharika Gupta

Adobe Dreamweaver

[Luke_s_Media]

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

[erics25041409]

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?

[Niharika Jha]

Hi,

Can you share the files and a video clip demonstrating the issue happening? This will help us debug the issue better. Also if you could tell us your machine configuration as well, we would try and replicate the same scenario at our end.

Regards,

Niharika Gupta

Adobe Dreamweaver

[Nancy OShea]

erics25041409  wrote

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

JIVE forum software does that with some browsers.  It's not an Adobe product BTW.  They outsource the forum system to somebody else.   We have reported the issue but it hasn't been fixed yet.

[wdburgdorf]

So we are at version 18 now, still not working any better it seems.

Is Dreamweaver 18 working well for anybody? I don't see anything special on my machine, fast, lots of memory. Or is DW made only to work with a few small files?

[osgood_]

Its main captivative audience are amatuers who tend only to use simple approaches to development, so if you have 2 or 3 more than a bunch of bannanas lm not too sure how much testing the DW development team does to ensure it works in those complex circumstances.

[zehrer00]

DW 18 faster then 17. But open more than 10 html files (for example) is stil a drama. W10, 32 RAM, I7 6th Generation, SSD

[nicks11605579]

I am experiencing the same issues. I am running a Macbook Pro 2015 15 inch with an ASUS PB287Q 4K Display. 16Gb Ram 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7. Other software seems to function really fast, however Dreamweaver 2018 and 2017 are both really slow on a machine which is more than capable of handling lots of data and graphics. However, I find that Photoshop is similar, although not as bad as Dreamweaver. I have tried all sorts of ways to speed things up but nothing seemed to work. It's a nightmare and I really would have thought Adobe would have gone to the lengths of testing and ensuring software worked at speed before sending out to the market. Sometimes it is so slow that it is hardly useable. We are paying for these products Adobe, and really in any other circle where a product didn't come up to scratch people would be asking for a refund. If us, the customer, can't use the software products that you make then that makes them UNFIT FOR PURPOSE. Personally I have a feeling sluggish performance could be down to Adobe Products now requiring an online connection to connect to the Cloud. Probably the sheer volume of users connecting at the same point in time may have something to do with it. It would be much better if Adobe went back to the old way of registering products, that was so much easier and it didn't require an online connection. Software used to work like Lightning as well unless you overdid it on the RAM.

[nicks11605579]

Just following up. I have now gone back to DW2015 and it runs like lightning.

[htet_khaing]

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!

[wdburgdorf]

You may be right about the feature overload. But then, that would explain slow reaction times only. Not that it locks up completely for several minutes at a time, even when editing only a small file of less than 100 lines of basic html.

Maybe there even are settings somewhere that can be changed to make DW faster or avoid lockups. If Adobe just let us know and shared their wisdom.

[Nancy OShea]

I don't have lock-ups with DW.  I'm on Win10. 

I mainly work in Code View or Split View with Design View selected as Live view is a tad annoying with PHP files.

My local site folders are on my primary hard drive and not Dropbox, Creative Cloud or other networked drives. 

My OS's Sleep Mode is disabled.

My Site Caching and File Sync are disabled.

I do not use protocol agnostic links to external files on CDNs.  I use either HTTPS or HTTP protocols on all such links.   See screenshot.

[wdburgdorf]

Thanks for sharing a bit of your wisdom, Nancy. I hardly ever get to edit the first file, losing my patience. Now, I thought, I measure it, launched DW with a stopwatch. Startup time seems to have improved since one of the last updates. After little more than half a minute DW looked like it was ready to open a file, totally acceptable. But when I tried to actually open a file, DW just disappeared. No error message, just gone.

A few years ago, DW was my preferred web editor. Then I dropped it, at some point, couldn't get the debugger working. Earlier this year, the other product's license fee was due and I thought, since I'm paying for DW anyway, why not try that again. Didn't work out.

I really like the looks of DW, the code split and Live view, and the other cool features I see in the marketing videos. So cool.