On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 23:51:49 +0200 (CEST) local10 <loca...@tutanota.com> wrote:
> Aug 31, 2018, 2:49 PM by nemomm...@gmail.com: > > > Well, the first time I installed and loaded it under Wheezy, its > > start up was so slow, I thought it had failed or was broken. (We > > are talking about Firefox ESR from the Debian repo.) But it > > finally sauntered onto the screen. Now, we aren't talking a LONG > > time. Not minutes. Just many extra seconds. About 2 to 3 times > > longer than I was accustomed to. > > > > I used Firefox on Wheezy for years under KDE, never had problems with > Firefox speed. If you start Firefox cold, the first window may take > 2-5 seconds to load depending on the number of plugins one has > installed, if a browsing session need to be restored, etc. but after > that new FF windows take a fraction of a second to open. I think > that's quite acceptable unless you are participating in some kind of > startbrowser-shutdownbroser-restartbrowser competition. Once FF is > running I leave it around for days and sometimes weeks, I use the > browser often so I see not point in shutting it down and restarting > all the time. IIRC, Firefox had two versions in the Wheezy repos: one was just Firefox; the other, Firefox-esr. ESR is the one I was referring to. Never installed the other. And FWIW, I never messed much with ESR. No plug-ins, no extensions, default configuration, etc. Just ruled out my system as the cause of the "slowness." It was merely the tool used to download Chrome. B