Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
JAS wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
When I launch SM 2.08, nothing happens for a few seconds or a
minute, and then the program pops up fully formed.
Mine is the same and takes over 2 min. to load and then just pops
up. IE6 takes about 20 sec. but I used SM always.
You two are both using Windows XP. How much ram? Free disk space?
The program should be ready to go in just a couple of seconds. Do
either of you have it open a page on the web as the start page? --
change it to a blank page. Clear your cache. Stop it from checking
for email at startup.
Depends what else is going on. If nothing, yes, it's up in less than
ten seconds. But if I'm running a heavy-duty Access query that sucks
up a lot of CPU time, it can take a minute or more. And when I'm
running my nightly backup program, it can take as long as five
minutes.
Ok then, so there is nothing wrong with SeaMonkey. It's only slow if you
are running other processor-intensive apps at the same time. You didn't
give those extra vital details, and still didn't state things like how
much ram you have.
Not relevant to my question, which is why I ignored it. These are not
"vital details" to my question.
But if you must know, I have one gig of RAM and about 40 GB of free
space on my HDD. At the moment, after emailing and browsing for most of
the day, the seamonkey.exe process is occupying 176 KB of RAM according
to Windows Task Manager. If I relaunch, it'll occupy about 50 KB to
start. I have it set to check mail at 20-minute intervals, but not at
startup. Same for RSS feeds.
All this is beside the point.
But in no case do I see a splash screen.
Neither does mine, and if it did I'd turn it off for wasting resources.
You could always file a request for feature, but make sure you ask that
it be an option.
If you will refer back to my original question, which you keep ducking,
I asked whether the splash screen had been eliminated or whether I
needed to toggle an option to restore it. I can afford to waste 5-10 KB
of RAM for a few seconds to confirm that the program is actually
starting. It's not like I'm killing more trees to print out a manual I
use as a doorstop.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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