Public bug reported: Edgy's firefox build needs a lot more time to start than mozilla.org's. Two examples of start/close-as-quickly-as-possible cycles (where "firefox" is 1.99+2.0b2+dfsg-1ubuntu3, and "./firefox" is the official 2.0rc2):
$ time firefox real 0m6.604s user 0m4.892s sys 0m0.336s $ time ./firefox real 0m3.157s user 0m2.176s sys 0m0.108s In other words, Ubuntu's firefox needs twice as much time to start as the official build. Clearly, something's very wrong here. FYI, the official firefox is configured like this: --enable- application=browser --enable-update-channel=release --enable-update- packaging --enable-official-branding --disable-debug '--enable- optimize=-Os -freorder-blocks -fno-reorder-functions -gstabs+' --disable-tests --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft --disable- freetype2 --enable-svg --enable-canvas --enable-static --disable-shared ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- 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