> So the only way I can > think of that Firefox or Thunderbird might start > faster after "several power > on/off cycles"' is if those files they maintained > happened to fall into a more > efficient state, which might happen if they for > example age them at startup > time.
Could you, if possible, elaborate on the "age" part? During the first couple of power on/off cycles, Thunderbird was noticeably slow. It would take probably five or more seconds to load. Now, it takes only a couple of seconds. Very acceptable. The biggest difference I have noticed is with StarOffice 8. During the early cycles (i.e., after it has been initially set up), it would take "a while" (can't really quantity it, but it is definitely much longer than five seconds) to load. Now it takes less than two seconds. Needless to say, I was initially very disappointed with SXCE 65, but now I think I can say that I am quite satisfied. Also, something totally unexpected happened. The way I have been using my SXCE box, every time after the GNOME login, I always click on the JDS icon and select "Firefox Web Browser". Then came yesterday, when I found SXCE, sua sponta, added the familiar Firefox icon on my GNOME desktop. I knew (though never believed it) that Solaris kernel is supposed to have some kind of self-healing power, but probably not this kind of intelligence. Is this a feature, a bug, or what? This message posted from opensolaris.org
