Gutsy speed

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> On 12/10/2007 06:16 AM, 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).
> 
> Memory would be my guess.

Certainly not _just_ memory -

> On a 2.4Ghz/1Gb FF takes 5 sec
...
> On a 1Ghz/640Mb FF takes 6 sec

So, if that was the problem, I should be somewhere in the 5-6s range, as my
laptop is 1.6GHz and 1GB.
-- 
derek