It is probably because it tries to look up something but also are you
using a scsi hard disk or IDE the latter are slower then the former.
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:27:23 +0000
> From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Erik Jakobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Netscape.
>
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Erik Jakobsen wrote about, Re: Netscape.:
> > Richard Adams wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Erik Jakobsen wrote about, Netscape.:
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > With SuSE 6.4 the netscape starts VERY slowly up.
> > >
> > > The speed in which netscape starts up depends on system resources, howmuch
> > > memory, other processes which grab CPU cycles. On my old 486/dx2 66 with 12
> > > meg it took something like 15 to 30 seconds to start, on my P333 with 64
> > > meg 3 seconds.
> >
> >
> > It takes around a minute or so. I'm using an Intel P-II-350Mhz, 128MB
> > ram and
> > 10GB HDD.
> >
> > I do not think that the setup here is VERY slow.
> >
> > Should bee the same as with your P333 -right ??.
> >
> > And Its the first I do after having the KDE to run is to start Netscape.
> > Its ok on
> > another computer I have that runs SuSE linux 6.3. It also have 128MB
> > RAM, and is an
> > AMD-350MHZ and 10GB HDD. Think it last around 5 sec.'s to get Netscape
> > up run.
>
> Then quite possably there is something wrong in ./netscape/preferances.js
> or you have URL's or inet addresses defined in there that are being looked
> up upon starting netscape. Quite possably a simalar problem to the one
> being asked by, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers)
> maybe he could check that file as well.
>
> Start netscape up, edit preferances and tell it to start with a blank page,
> that might help.
>
> --
> Regards Richard
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