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Fascinating post, and very interesting, but I have to wonder... 45 seconds to restart Firefox? And just to clear the cache? Assuming he does that "hundreds" of
by aroman 14y ago
Fascinating post, and very interesting, but I have to wonder... 45 seconds to restart Firefox? And just to clear the cache? Assuming he does that "hundreds" of times a day (say, 200), that's 2.5 hours a day just waiting for Firefox to spin up and down.
What could possibly cause it to take that long? Was there no a to clear the cache without restarting the whole browser?
Unless I'm missing something, this seems very strange to me.
- cube13 14y agoThis was around 2006, which, IIRC, was pretty much at the peak of Firefox's startup bloat issues. I'm also inclined to believe that he was on an older machine, because this would have also been IE6 days, which was definitely much faster to load than anything else(due to MS basically building IE into XP).
- sp332 14y agoBack in 2006? That's a bit unusual but entirely realistic for a heavy user. The binaries were not optimized for loading from disk, because no one was anal enough to do that until 2010 https://blog.mozilla.org/tglek/2010/04/12/squeezing-every-last-bit-of-performance-out-of-the-linux-toolchain/ https://blog.mozilla.org/tglek/2010/04/12/squeezing-every-la... The history and bookmarks were completely overhauled in 2007 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Places#Timeline_and_History https://wiki.mozilla.org/Places#Timeline_and_History But if you had a lot of tabs open, and a bunch of extensions, it could still take nearly 30 seconds to do a warm start in 2010 according to this forum thread http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2050985&start=15 http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=20509...
- Mahn 14y agoIt's absolutely realistic. Firefox was very, very bloated in 2006, but we still used it because the next best thing was IE.