Fred Ahrens

You'll need a code signing certificate - SSL certificates can't be used for code signing. Developers can get a discounted code signing certificate from Digicert via this link -> https://www.digicert.com/friends/sysdev/

Deep in the release notes I have seen some comments regarding the implementation of some of Andreas' patches directly into the official release. But I couldn't find any further info if this is the full feature set of the Fix Pack or only a few selected patches.

You may need to upgrade your Comodo digital signatures. As far as I remember Comodo signatures are considered unsafe now (see: https://bravatek.com/comodo-certificate-hack-it-gets-worse/)

I have no hard evidence here. We had the problem for a while and it also took a while (several months) for tracking this down to the LiveBindings. I remember we had hope that Tokyo would solve the problem - but it didn't. And if I remember right, the performance problem wasn't that big in Seattle. Meanwhile we use two profiles in Delphi: one with and one without LiveBindings. I just created a shortcut to bds.exe on my Desktop with parameter -rUseLiveBindings (you can use whatever name you prefer). The default profile has LiveBindings disabled (also for mobile), and the second profile has LiveBindings enabled. The downside of this approach is, you'll need to install all 3rd party component packages for both profiles. But you may copy all entries in registry from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\19.0 to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\UseLiveBindungs\19.0 first before making the individual adjustments to each profile. (as mentioned before "UseLivebindings" is the name you assign to this second profile via the -r command line switch).

We had the same problem with very slow opening of forms. At the end we tracked it down to a problem with LiveBindings. Disabling LiveBindings (removing the related component packages in the IDE) accelerated the opening of forms dramatically. That's of course a solution only for projects where you don't rely on LiveBindings.