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click File menu; navigate to Open File... On the way, must pass through Open Project... Highlight stops on Open Project..., and IDE freezes. Eventually (after about 30 seconds), it starts responding and can navigate menu again.
Could you please generate thread-dump during the freeze ? http://qa.netbeans.org/bugzilla/generating-thread-dumps.html
Created attachment 43563 [details] attempt to capture thread trace
Created attachment 43567 [details] thread trace
It looks like filling submenu of recent projects may trigger actual creating/opening of project, second attached thread dump seems to indicate it...passing to projects.
I observe the same problem.
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Done, the filling of menu is now "lightning" fast.. the icons are missing though, but that's issue #111500 Checking in RecentProjects.java; /cvs/projects/projectui/src/org/netbeans/modules/project/ui/actions/RecentProjects.java,v <-- RecentProjects.java new revision: 1.19; previous revision: 1.18
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