The basic problem here is the number of DLLs that Mozilla uses. On OS/2,
loading DLLs is expensive.
Mozilla is creating a version that uses fewer DLLs, and once this is done,
startup should get better.
Mike Kaply
IBM
Brad & Alison van Eps wrote:
> G'Day,
>
> I don't know if this is a bug (haven't been able to spot it on
> Bugzilla) or a "feature", but why does Mozilla take sooo looong to
> start? After clicking on the icon, it chugs away at the hard drive
> for a couple of seconds and then NOTHING for almost 2 minutes! Then
> the hard drive starts up again and it finishes loading. I'm running
> Mozilla 0.9 (May 7 build) with Warp4 FP11 on a Celeron 450 with 196Mb
> RAM so system resources shouldn't be a problem. In fact, it actually
> runs at a pretty good speed once it's loaded, but just getting there
> is the issue.
>
> Any hints? Thanks for any info, particularly if this wait can be
> eliminated!
>
>
> Brad
