Yes, Feisty's firefox is still a very slow starter. Here are some
timings of warm and cold starts respectively ("firefox" is
2.0.0.1+1-0ubuntu1, "nfox" is the official 2.0.0.1 from mozilla.org):Warm start: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/bin/time nfox -P default 2.45user 0.13system 0:03.33elapsed 77%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+14062minor)pagefaults 0swaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/bin/time firefox -P default 4.22user 0.32system 0:05.56elapsed 81%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+22329minor)pagefaults 0swaps Cold start: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sync; echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/bin/time nfox -P default 3.35user 0.23system 0:14.78elapsed 24%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (223major+13557minor)pagefaults 0swaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sync; echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/bin/time firefox -P default 5.26user 0.52system 0:21.22elapsed 27%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (348major+21984minor)pagefaults 0swaps -- Firefox starts very slowly https://launchpad.net/bugs/64844 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
