Quote Originally Posted by fingers99
You'd expect Firefox to be faster than Mozilla.
and it is by my measurements.

Other than that, it's going to depend on a great many other things: what other services you're running (yep, there will be a lot of them running from a cold boot), your X set up and on and on.
I have no other servies then what knoppix gave me. The only thing I chose to run from the install script was the kdm. X is set up how knoppix set it up.

What are the specifics I should look for in these things you mention.

You don't say how you're starting Mozilla, but FWIW, with an uptime of 4 days, starting from the taskbar until the home page loads, running the stock Debian Moz 1.5, takes approx 11 seconds.
I am starting mozilla on a cold boot of the system.......after freshly turning the PC on.. The times are the same from the taskbar or the command line.

Everyone who has quoted me times has quoted me times with an AMD processor. Since it is popular among linux people could it be that the stock mozilla binaries are all compiled to that chip and not mine ( P4 )?

Would that make a difference?

Steve