On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:18:57AM +0200, David Demelier wrote: > Hi, > > I used to love firefox in the early days, when I started using Linux > around 2003-2004. It was so fast. Now it's just amazing how long does > it take to start. > > On my machine : intel i3 540, 2G of RAM and FreeBSD 9.1 it takes > around 12 secondes to start. Is it so long for you too?
Around 2 seconds on an intel core2 quad, 4G RAM, FreeBSD 9.1 amd64. > What kind of bloat has been added so it's so big to start.. When building firefox from source, I only set the GIO and OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS options to ON. All other options were set to OFF. You could try using Profile Guided Optimizations, but it will make the build a lot slower. Do you have plugins (not add-ons) like java or flash installed? Try disabling those. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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