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sylvarant

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Registered: 2009-02-02

Posts: 17

firefox boots extremly slow

While my complete system is lightning fast, firefox tends to boot extremly slowly on my machine
I'm always wondering if I actually asked it to boot up, because it takes so long

I'm running archlinux x64 with openbox, anyone have any idea's what might be wrong?

edit : more info
disabling add-ons doesn't help and epiphany is also slow as hell to boot.
I'm running on a jfs file system

Last edited by sylvarant (2009-02-08 16:27:11)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: firefox boots extremly slow

I don't if this helps, but Firefox is always slow to start for everyone. It's gotten better over the years, but it's still the slowest booting thing on my system. After first launch it starts up very fast.

ugaciaka

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From: Italy

Registered: 2008-07-06

Posts: 140

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Re: firefox boots extremly slow

see http://www.gettingclever.com/2008/06/va … fox-3.html

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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: firefox boots extremly slow

see http://www.gettingclever.com/2008/06/va … fox-3.html

Very nice link

seenxu

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Registered: 2008-08-25

Posts: 111

Re: firefox boots extremly slow

my firefox bootup needs 7 sec.

sylvarant

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Registered: 2009-02-02

Posts: 17

Re: firefox boots extremly slow

thanks for the link, seems to be having some effect
btw, would prelink help firefox boot up faster (I've read it doesn't really work on archlinux)