Gutsy speed

[Tony Arnold]

Derek,

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:58 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Yes, it takes me an absolute minimum of 20 seconds.
>> 20 seconds to launch firefox? Of course counting the time to open 100
>> tabs doesn't count as ff startup time ...
> 
> I just timed it - 21 seconds to first show an _incomplete_ firefox window,
> and 3 more to actually paint the only tab (which was admittedly an Internet
> page - maybe if I had just a local page open when I closed it it would be
> faster, but it looks like not less than 20 seconds).

That seems incredibly slow! My system takes a couple of seconds to
produce  a full tab. My home page is iGoogle.

What sort of processor and disk are you using and how much memory do you
have? And do you have anything else much running at the same time?

Regards,
Tony.
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