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When a comment like this pop up, I launch this Chromium instance I have installed but never used, and it takes several seconds to launch (from an SSD, so that's
by TonyTrapp 6y ago
When a comment like this pop up, I launch this Chromium instance I have installed but never used, and it takes several seconds to launch (from an SSD, so that's no the limiting factor), while Firefox opens almost instantly. I think some operating systems (at least Windows) pre-cache frequently used applications and their data so that they start as quickly as possible. Maybe that's what you notice everytime you try to switch?
- dcminter 6y agoI bet you're right. For me on Linux with Firefox as my main driver: Chromium startup to empty page: 7 seconds. Firefox startup to page populated with tabs: 3 seconds. It's worse though - since I don't often reboot and I have Firefox running almost all the time the effective start up time for Firefox for me might as well be zero. Perhaps oddly, I've never perceived Firefox as slow - but I'd be the first to admit that I use it only for rather mundane purposes, so maybe there are use cases where it would be deficient.
- gtf21 6y agoI find this too, both on Linux and MacOS Chrome takes longer to load, longer to load pages, and eats huge amounts of CPU and RAM. By contrast (again, my experience), Firefox opens instantly for me and loads pages very fast even with about five addons installed.
- broknbottle 6y agoIf this is on Linux, you probably have the snap or flatpak version of chromium installed.