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stevesutt89

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From: Newcastle Australia

Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 46

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kill firefox and openoffice as soon as they ar loaded??

Hi All!

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I've been looking into ways of speeding up the load times of firefox and openoffice.  I know you can't get something for nothing, so at some point or other firefox/openoffice will have to load their data from the hard disk into the ram so that they can open up.  however once this is done once, it seems that they both will load much quicker until the computer is powered off. 

So, i had the idea of setting both firefox and openoffice to load on system startup (by adding them to the "startup programs" in System>Preferences>Sessions.  And them some how get rid of them so that they are either out of sight (on another workspace or minimised) or are completely gone. 

I originally tried the workspace/minimised idea using devilspie, however it just didn't work, firefox/openoffice would always load the normal way. 

So after tons of waffle, my question is:

is there a way to kill firefox and openoffice cleanly once they are completely loaded from the command line (ie is there a command i can put into the startup programs to kill them) that dosen't require root privileges

leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: kill firefox and openoffice as soon as they ar loaded??

killall firefox && killall openoffice?

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: kill firefox and openoffice as soon as they ar loaded??

to kill firefox with the killall command you have to use

killall firefox-bin

leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: kill firefox and openoffice as soon as they ar loaded??

by the way, swiftfox is far more optimized and faster than firefox for my at last... and it conserves all your firefox config upon instalation from aur...

swiftfox-amd 2.0.0.7-1 - A prebuilt version of Firefox,optimized for AMD AthlonXP processors.
swiftfox-athlon 2.0.0.6-1 - Swiftfox is a prebuilt version of Firefox,optimized for athlon processors.     swiftfox-athlon64 2.0.0.9-1 - Swiftfox is a prebuilt version of Firefox,optimized for athlon64 processors. swiftfox-pentium-m 2.0.0.9-1 - Swiftfox is a prebuilt version of Firefox,optimized for Pentium Mobile processors.
swiftfox-pentium2 2.0.0.6-1 - Swiftfox is a prebuilt version of Firefox, optimized for Pentium 2 processors.
swiftfox-pentium3 2.0.0.9-1 - Swiftfox is a prebuilt version of Firefox,optimized for pentium3 processors.
swiftfox-pentium3m 2.0.0.4-1 - Swiftfox is a prebuilt version of Firefox,optimized for Pentium III Mobile processors.
swiftfox-pentium4 2.0.0.9-1 - Swiftfox is a prebuilt version of Firefox,optimized for Pentium4 processors.
swiftfox-prescott 2.0.0.7-1 - Swiftfox is a prebuilt 32-bit version of Firefox, optimized for Pentium D and Intel Core Duo/Solo processors.

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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

stevesutt89

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From: Newcastle Australia

Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 46

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Re: kill firefox and openoffice as soon as they ar loaded??

ahhh, brilliant, killall should work nicely as long as i get open office to open without loading a document (even a blank one) cause the killall will cause it'll to want to recover a document next time it loads. 
Theres still one problem though, firefox when i killall firefox it dies without saving anything and thus the next time it loads it comes up with the dialog box asking me to restore the previous session, is there any way to stop this???