Alfred 2 script filter executable loading unusually slowly

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I created a workflow for Alfred for searching DuckDuckGo and automatically displaying the results in the window, with a script filter.

It takes ~4 seconds to start from Alfred. It takes 0.506s to return the results in Terminal, so this looks like an Alfred problem.

(Subsequent times, as I add to the query, it runs in under a second again, so I don't know what's going on). Also, if I use it and then use it again quickly, that extra wait time doesn't happen. It would be nice to at least allow the cache to live longer if that's possible, but I have no idea what is being cached.

Best Answer

I feel stupid now. It turns out that HTTPS was being slow the first time because it has to check the cert or something. It has nothing to do with Alfred. I switched to HTTP (while I don't like it going through in plaintext) and it's about 1.2s the first time instead of 4 or 5.

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Alfred toggles very slowly

I'd recommend turning off fade-in animation under Appearance where you'll see "Fade in Alfred window".

The only reasons Alfred would be slow are either RAM swapping and you're out of memory or, unlikely but possible, could be due to a network drive that is still being looked for after being disconnected.

Script to toggle internet sharing using Alfred

You could try this (tested on OSX 10.9.5 but it may depends on the version of you OS) :

tell application "System Preferences"
-- display system preferences window
activate
-- wait to see the window
delay 1.5
-- try again
activate
-- Open sharing tab (or pane)
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preferences.sharing"
-- we want to see it
delay 1.5

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "System Preferences"

        -- click the checkbox to enable internet sharing
        tell window 1 to click checkbox 1 of row 8 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of group 1
    end tell
end tell
-- wait to see the result
delay 1.5
--quit -- we can quit system preferences
end tell