On 10/27/2013 1:13 PM, C wrote:
I've been tinkering with Firefox in openSUSE and comparing it to other distros.
Software/Hardware I'm testing on: AMD Phenom II X4, 16GB RAM, SSD drive, and openSUSE x86_64 with KDE 4.11.
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.
This is a default install of Firefox with no extensions and a clean profile.
I've compared that behaviour now with Firefox on other distros on the same hardware, and everywhere else I've tested, Firefox is as fast as, or faster than the other browsers - again, no extensions, clean profile.
Firefox is also virtually instant on guest OSes (various Linux distros) in VMWare as well - and the VMs are installed onto mechanical drives.
So... any ideas why openSUSE's Firefox is so slow in starting up?
C.
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. 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. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org