On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:55:11 +0100 C C wrote:
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:45 PM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
Firefox on openSUSE takes a very long time (relatively speaking) to launch on openSUSE. Other browsers such as Chrome/Chromium, Opera, Konqueor etc all launch very quickly... under 1.5 seconds. Firefox on the other hand takes between 15 and 20 seconds (feels like a lot longer). nothing is written to console when starting. Nothing is written to /var/log/messages either.
I find firefox is slower to launch on windows too.
A lot of this has to do with the shear size of the executable, and once you get that cached by the first launch of the day it will launch much quicker from there on out.
I thought about the size of the app as well, but.. I'm launching from SSD, and even monster apps like LibreOffice start up almost instantly (without the pre-load for LibO). Then I compared to other distros, and there, the same version of Firefox pops open almost instantly. If other distros has similar startup times... but they don't. They are faster, even on the very first launch immediately after installing.
Also, if I launch, close and re-launch... it's still usually taking 15 to 20 seconds to start up. If I leave it open and browse for a bit, and then close/relaunch it's snappy like the other browsers. Wait a while though, and then relaunch.. back to 20 second startup time.
One thing that seems particularly time consuming in Firefox is their proxy detection. Simply turn that off in Preferences / Advanced / Network and tell it that it is directly connected with no proxy.
It's set to the default from openSUSE... "Use system proxy settings". If I set it to "No proxy" there's no change in startup.
I know 20 seconds isn't that long in the grand scheme of things... but it's REALLY noticeable and annoying considering it's the only app I use that takes so long to launch, and it's so much faster on other distros.
C.
Hmmm... I Googled 'how to speed up Firefox launch on Linux' and then '2013 how to speed up Firefox launch on Linux' and got over 2.6 million hits. Looks like this is actually a common complaint and many things can be involved, including an incorrectly configured /etc/hosts file, an excessively large or fragmented Sqlite database (the one that underpins the anti-phishing feature,) having pipe-lining disabled (all protocols,) having too high a value set for 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' (default appears to be 250 ms) and so on. Even things like changing the default start-up page and search engine are recommended. Could this have something to do with openSUSE 'branding'? For the record, I'm running FF 24.0 on openSUSE 12.3 w/ KDE 4.11.2 (just updated) and I haven't noticed this problem. I regularly keep several FF windows open, spread across several desktops, with each having anywhere from 3 to 5, up to a dozen tabs open depending upon what I'm working on and I haven't noticed a problem. I'm able to work all day, several days in a row, without much difficulty and without having to close and restart the browser, and I run Web Developer Tools and Firebug and several other extensions. Moreover, this is a modest (mobile 2.0 GHz) Core2Duo system, so, I "feel your pain" but I don't ;-) Is this the *only* problem you're experiencing with the browser? regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org