Out of interest i performed the same test, here are my results...
i have a quite a few extensions, if that makes a difference, but your results are impressive.


$ time firefox
No running windows found
Component returned failure code: 0x80470002 (NS_BASE_STREAM_CLOSED) [nsIFileOutputStream.write]Component returned failure code: 0x80470002 (NS_BASE_STREAM_CLOSED) [nsIFileOutputStream.write]Component returned failure code: 0x80470002 (NS_BASE_STREAM_CLOSED) [nsIFileOutputStream.write]
real 0m2.376s
user 0m1.869s
sys 0m0.115s


but if i already have one open

$ time firefox

real    0m0.577s
user    0m0.031s
sys     0m0.026s

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
stepping        : 7
cpu MHz         : 2658.076
cache size      : 512 KB

$ cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:       512832 kB
MemFree:        103692 kB
Buffers:         34620 kB
Cached:         258480 kB


Im pretty happy with firefoxs performance...

When i had XP on my machine, it took the same time to start!

Im Using KDE (dont know if that makes any difference)

Luke

Peter Rundle wrote:
Firefox/Mozilla startup on Linux/Unix/etc is a dog's breakfast to put it lightly.


$ time /usr/lib/firefox/firefox

real    0m2.564s
user    0m0.172s
sys     0m0.190s

That is the time to open a window on my desktop that I can click on to then close firefox.

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 5
model name      : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 450.035
cache size      : 512 KB

Not exactly the fastest PC on the planet.

$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       517164 kB
MemFree:          4904 kB
Buffers:         79380 kB
Cached:         233092 kB

Ok so it's chock full to the gills with RAM and the kernel has cached some 230Mb of the disk. Here endeth the lesson

P.



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