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From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Firefox is so slow
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On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:18:57AM +0200, David Demelier wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I used to love firefox in the early days, when I started using Linux
> around 2003-2004. It was so fast. Now it's just amazing how long does
> it take to start.
>=20
> On my machine : intel i3 540, 2G of RAM and FreeBSD 9.1 it takes
> around 12 secondes to start. Is it so long for you too?

Around 2 seconds on an intel core2 quad, 4G RAM, FreeBSD 9.1 amd64.

> What kind of bloat has been added so it's so big to start..

When building firefox from source, I only set the GIO and
OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS options to ON. All other options were set to OFF.

You could try using Profile Guided Optimizations, but it will make the
build a lot slower.

Do you have plugins (not add-ons) like java or flash installed? Try
disabling those.

Roland
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