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Startup time matters (a lot). Even if i open it once a day i still want it to be fast. Nobody likes slow apps.

mcphilip 13y ago
Agreed. A few years ago there were a lot of complaints about Firefox starting very slowly, especially on Windows machines [1]. For those of us that obsessively close apps that aren't being used, the startup time was a big turn off. [1]. Just google Firefox loads slow to see lots of results like http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/762446 http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/762446
mbell 13y ago
Startup time matters as close to zero as you could get for me. Chrome only gets restarted when the computer gets restarted which is only when OSX releases updates which is about every 3 months. As long as the answer isn't '5 minutes', I don't care about it at all. Same deal for the other test that seems to be sinking chrome in the overall score, the open 40 tabs thing. I don't think I've ever opened 40 tabs at once, and if I did, I can't see myself caring that they all finished in some amount of time. I'd be far more concerned that the browser was smart enough to prioritize the one I'm actually looking at. The structure of the overall score in this is pretty broken in opinion. The final tally is a geometric mean of Wait Times, JavaScript/DOM, HTML5/CSS3, and Hardware Acceleration. Chrome won all but the wait times test and even within the wait times test still won the single page test. It lost purely due to 'cold start' and 'open 40 tabs and time all of them', which are least relevant tests to reality in the entire suite.
coldtea 13y ago
>Startup time matters (a lot). Even if i open it once a day i still want it to be fast. Nobody likes slow apps. Slow is the 99.9999% of time you use it. Not the few seconds it takes to open. Also, get an SSD and be done with it. Also, with sleep, you don't even startup once a day.
- shocks 13y ago
  I have an SSD, Firefox still takes a few seconds to open. Chrome is instant.
  - derleth 13y ago
    But for the majority without an SSD, Chrome is a lot slower.
Ygg2 13y ago
I agree startup time is not a major concern, however it's super to have it. I guess all that speedup and memshrink ventures are starting to pay off.

Agreed. A few years ago there were a lot of complaints about Firefox starting very slowly, especially on Windows machines [1]. For those of us that obsessively close apps that aren't being used, the startup time was a big turn off. [1]. Just google Firefox loads slow to see lots of results like http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/762446 http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/762446

mbell 13y ago

Startup time matters as close to zero as you could get for me. Chrome only gets restarted when the computer gets restarted which is only when OSX releases updates which is about every 3 months. As long as the answer isn't '5 minutes', I don't care about it at all. Same deal for the other test that seems to be sinking chrome in the overall score, the open 40 tabs thing. I don't think I've ever opened 40 tabs at once, and if I did, I can't see myself caring that they all finished in some amount of time. I'd be far more concerned that the browser was smart enough to prioritize the one I'm actually looking at. The structure of the overall score in this is pretty broken in opinion. The final tally is a geometric mean of Wait Times, JavaScript/DOM, HTML5/CSS3, and Hardware Acceleration. Chrome won all but the wait times test and even within the wait times test still won the single page test. It lost purely due to 'cold start' and 'open 40 tabs and time all of them', which are least relevant tests to reality in the entire suite.

coldtea 13y ago

>Startup time matters (a lot). Even if i open it once a day i still want it to be fast. Nobody likes slow apps. Slow is the 99.9999% of time you use it. Not the few seconds it takes to open. Also, get an SSD and be done with it. Also, with sleep, you don't even startup once a day.

shocks 13y ago
I have an SSD, Firefox still takes a few seconds to open. Chrome is instant.
- derleth 13y ago
  But for the majority without an SSD, Chrome is a lot slower.

Ygg2 13y ago

I agree startup time is not a major concern, however it's super to have it. I guess all that speedup and memshrink ventures are starting to pay off.