Mandag den 25. maj 2009 21:32:25 skrev Wolfgang Rosenauer:
There was also a mail from coolo about Firefox taking about one minute to start on a cold system. Please note that I never ever saw such a behaviour. From my feeling Firefox 3.5b4 on openSUSE 11.1 starts on a cold system within 5 seconds and a hot system within one second. I have to admit that my current system is quite powerful.
So I'm wondering about which startup times people are talking here. I'm pretty sure there could be systems where it takes a long time but overall it shouln't be that slow.
I hadn't done any remotely serious research or benchmarking on this, I only brought my experience up, because someone else started the topic. For me on Mandriva a cold start of Firefox would take maybe 3-4 seconds, and on openSUSE maybe 7-9 seconds. Maybe it doesn't sound like much, but it feels like a huge difference. This is on a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook e8110, core duo, 1 gig of ram. Three years old or so (I bought it second hand in the late summer 2008), not too fast, but not too slow either. Admittedly the Mandriva installation would be a bit fresher. But since Firefox is my secondary browser, only used where konq fails, it doesn't have a large amount of extensions or data or other funny stuff. And besides I don't think the issue is specific for Firefox either. Like I said before I found the same thing with KDE apps. Systemsettings or Dolphin would prolly start in about 1 second on Mandriva, and on openSUSE starting in 2-3 seconds after some hectic disk activity. Again, not a big difference, but if you use some application several times everyday, and suddenly it starts twice as fast, you take notice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org