Thanks for the replies.
> In my testing while Gnome isn't as snappy as some of the lighter
> weight desktops I've not seen Firefox take anywhere near that long,
When using LXDE, Firefox starts up in under a minute. Something else with
Gnome might be the cause. I also tried running Gnome
> Thanks - I have been monitoring the Raspberry Pi's current frequency by
> looking at: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
> Even after adding force_turbo=1 to config.txt and rebooting, cpu0 never seems
> to scale above 600
> A closer peek at
> $ sudo cat
