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Isn't 30 seconds a lot of time just to start a browser?
by simula67 4y ago
Isn't 30 seconds a lot of time just to start a browser?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- PaulHoule 4y agoFrequently you find people complaining about browser performance have multiple extensions involved and they are suffering from “pluginitis”. Pluginitis sufferers, however, have very little insight into their condition and frequently react violently when you tell them that your browser starts in just a few seconds. Back in 1999 my relatives were browsing the web over dialup with 640x480 screens and frequently had more than 50% of the vertical screen area consumer by window chrome, browser buttons, and toolbar after toolbar installed by multiple (now forgotten) web sites such as Yahoo, Lycos, Hotmail, AOL, CNET, etc…. Oddly none of these people saw anything wrong with this.
- goodpoint 4y agoNo no no. If a plugin that blocks cookies and stuff like that manages to slow down a browser it means there's a big design error in that browser.
- noirscape 4y agoThis has nothing to do with plugins. This is on browsers whose only installed extension is uBlock Origin. I'd hardly consider that pluginitis, since browsing the internet without an adblocker is tantamount to asking for malware these days.
- PaulHoule 4y agouBlock Origin is a counterexample. It’s the only or very close to only browser extension that I think anyone should install.
- smolder 4y agoThey said: "cold boot and start the browser." That's two things, not just starting the browser.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThe first 26 is the OS getting to the desktop.
- Karellen 4y ago...of which 20 seconds is typing in the LUKS passphrase
- user432678 4y agoI like the consistency though, had the same start up time on my Pentium III and Firefox 1.6 nearly 20 years ago /s