On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Martin Schlander
And the application startup difference is really huge, the first time I started Firefox on Mandriva I was litterally in disbelief thinking "what the f...?!?" .. usually starting Firefox means it's time to go get some coffee.
If you create a new user in openSUSE box and try launching firefox it might start as fast as your ubuntu machine. Firefox becomes a hog over long usage (few months). The sqlite database after getting bloated will cause serious delays in startup. You can shutdown firefox and from the ~/.mozilla directory run: find . -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 '{}' 'VACUUM;' \; This will compact the disk blocks of your sqlite database and from then on, firefox will start noticeably faster if your are a long time user. I started a project to vaccumize sqlite databases (of various applications) periodically, as they are the culprit for slowness in most of the desktop applications - f-spot, banshee, firefox, evolution etc. I stopped working on it after I got moved out of the openSUSE teams. May be it is good to re-start the project. ( http://gitorious.org/vacuumizer ) The reasoning that I gave for slowness could be wrong and the actual issue may be different. But I have fixed, "firefox starts slow" issue for lots of users with this hack and couldn't resist replying. -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org