I posted lessMethodSendsInFontUsage-JMM.4.cs to http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=2144 to avoid excessive msg sends to font data entities as you resolve what to do character by character. Most of the changes described in #2144 were in Pharo but not all. I see we still do the forgetAllGrabCommandsFrom: dance across all objects in the image at startup time, not sure if this issue was ever resolved. Lastly I note PluggableListMorph>>getList runs quite a bit when we display a browser window. I'm wondering here if there should be a subclass where you know the list elements are strings and you just make a copy of the collection, versus doing a collect: asStringOrText -- = = = ======================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com = = = ========================================================================