Why is Dreamweaver so slow!

[Turboladdade]

Editing any pages that make heavy use of CSS really slows down Dreamweaver for me. It is incredibly frustrating that such a simple thing as editing an HTML document can bring four xeon processors to a crawl.

Is there some sort of trick I'm missing to get it to perform well? How do people put up with this?

[mrkramer]

You are using a universal binary version of Dreamweaver right? I don't know a lot about Dreamweaver, so that is the only thing that I can think of.

[Turboladdade]

Yes it's UB. Dreamweaver has the strange tendency to just randomly go extremely slow, even if I'm just using it as an HTML editor.

[chasm]

Check the Activity Monitor whenever it suddenly goes slow.

My guess would be that spotlight is trying to index some new pages you're creating, but that shouldn't take terribly long.

[macuser77]

I'm not sure how well Creative suite handles quad core processors. Although I'm running a G5, CS2 and CS3 would tend to slow to a crawl from time to time. Do you currently have version cue enabled? I find CS, and my entire system overall, speeds up quite a bit once I turn version cue off.