Why does my Acer Chromebook not work any more with Wikipedia editing?

Factual Questions
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I’ve been using my Acer Chromebook for a couple of years to edit Wikipedia with no troubles, but I’ve been having a problem recently. The keyboard entry is terribly slow. If I click to move the cursor from one spot to another, it can take a minute for it to move. If I hit the “backspace” button to delete text, it may take over a minute for the deletions to occur. Entering new text from the keyboard is equally molasses-like.

It’s at it’s worst with long pages with lots of formatting, but it happens with simpler pages as well.

I’ve cleared the cache a couple of times, and turned the whole thing off and re-booted, but the problem is always the same.

It just developed over the past couple of days.

Anyone have any suggestions what’s wrong, and how to fix it?

Thanks!

PS - it actually reminds me of the bad old days of the lazy hamsters on the SDMB!

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Hmm. It seems to be workign with other pages. It’s this one page, which is quite long, and to which I’ve already made a lot of edits, that it has the molasses syndrome. Is there such a thing as a cache specific to the particular page?

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Is there a clipboard that would be associated with this page? I’ve sometimes got a message about content on my clipboard when I’m closing MS Word on my PC. Could there be something similar here?

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It being long may be the problem. It may be too much for your device to handle easily.

Are you ending the source, or using the format editor? If the latter, I’d suggest switching to “edit source” instead for most editing. If it’s already the source, then I’d suggest copying the text to a text editor, then pasting it back.

What page specifically is the issue? If you don’t want to post it publicly (as we can see what username or IP edited the page), feel free to PM me.

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Thanks to off-line feedback from @BigT and @psychonaut (thanks!), it is a chromebook problem interacting with the Wikipedia pages. So I posted on the Village Pump tech page, and got advice to turn on the speller. Apparently this is a known problem - the spell checker for Chrome can sometimes have this effect on Wikipedia pages. Why? Dunno.

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Taht should have said “turn off the speller”.

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As you can see I have done.