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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