Quote Originally Posted by beforewisdom
Hi;

I recently timed startups( on a *cold* boot ) for Mozilla 1.6 and
Firefox 0.8 on my system:

Mozilla : 18 seconds
Firefox: 10 seconds.

I am running:
- A P4 2.53 gigahertz processor
- 533 mhz front side bus
- 512 DDR Ram /sbin/hdparm -qd1 /dev/hdc
- a 10 gig partition ( of a 40 gig hard drive ) with:
- hd installed knoppix( debian ), mix of test, & unstable
- icewm
- a dmae enabled system.
- /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh has this line of code in it at the
bottom
/sbin/hdparm -qd1 /dev/hdc
- knoppix with icewm

So, my question is, given all of this information are my *cold* boot
startup times for the Mozilla browsers normal? Should I be getting
faster startup times?

Thanks in advance
I think I discovered the cause of my 18 second startuptime for mozilla and 10 second startup time for fireforx. I installed a fresh copy of my distro ( knoppix june 03 ) onto another partition on my hard drive. Mozilla started up in 5 seconds flat. The way I see it this clears my hardware as the culprit, it clears my distro as the culprit, it clears anything in my .mozill dir as the culprit ( firefox uses .phoenix and was installed fresh ). People in the knoppix forum were surprised at my lousy startup times so I dont think it is a never version of mozilla. Im guessing apt-get hosed me in a dependency it got. Oh well, next weekend I am wiping my disk . I am going to start over with gentoo and mephis ( quick and easy distro to use while I work on gentoo )