Re: Looking for an application preloader...

On Feb 23, 12:09 am, Mercury <nob...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bit Twister wrote:

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)......

One must judge which information is relevant in a given situation. At
this point, I don't think rattling off version numbers is going to help.
But let's see how this turns out.

The problem is that Firefox (v2.0.0.1) is too slow to launch. Over 5
seconds on first launch, about 3 seconds each time thereafter. As I
said, I get sub-half-second launch in Windows and I'd like something
similar in Kubuntu.)

Either you have a very slow computer, or some network issues are at
play. That IS pretty slow.

This computer has a 1.6Ghz processor and loads Firefox in about a
second or second and a half, and I don't see much difference in the
first or second startup.

You should see if you have some network issue. Try setting your start
page to about:blank



I'm using KDE but I get the same behavior in GNOME and across several
distros.

I'm also using KDE (version 3.5.6).


I'm launching it from the icon, but for all intents and purposes, let's
say I'm using the command "firefox".



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

This is not a DNS issue, but if you insist:

nameserver 192.168.0.60

Does that address go to a valid DNS server? (Actually, you should
have at least 2 entries in there, a primary nameserver and a secondary
one. The faster of the two should be first, (primary), and if it is a
caching nameserver inside your network, it will probably be fastest,
depending on the performance of your router, (or what ever box the
nameserver is actually running on.)
Is that your router which doubles as a caching name server? If so,
that is good, if not, you should change it. But again, you should
eliminate network issues and see how fast Firefox will load up when
starting with an internal page or no page at all, e.g. set try setting
the "Home Page:" to about:blank




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.

Update check is already disabled. The page doesn't matter, I get the
same result if I set it to blank.

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.

While I thank you for the suggestion, this isn't what I want.


.

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