Re: Looking for an application preloader...

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:12:49 -0500, Mercury wrote:

Okay, just a few ays ago I got my ass chewed out because I dared to say apps
don't load as fast on Linux as they do on Windows. (Let's ignore the issue
that I didn't deserve any of the crap I got.)

But you did.

So let me cut right to the chase;

About time.

I want Firefox to load as fast on Linux as it does on
Windows. (Which is less than 0.5 seconds for initial launch.) Is
there any way, short of modifying the source code myself, that this
can be done?

You may get more helpful answers when you provide details pertaining
to your problem, desktop (gnome,kde,..), command used, exact error messages,..
vendor release (10.x, 2006, 2007)......

Please, do read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


Would you post the output from
cat /etc/resolv.conf

You can go into firefox settings and tell it to not check for updates.
I have it load a local index.html with all the links I normally click
on instead of going off site on startup.

Another feature is I use on KDE is a desktop startup script.
It fires up apps into different desktops.
Three mail clients (thunderbird) desktop 8
newsreader (slrn) desktop 3
browser (firefox) desktop 4
skype desktop 2

Linux is a multi user/tasking system, no sense in it being idle.

Desktop shortcuts jump to the desktop/app so it instant on/load
at all times when logged in.

.

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