tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:/discussions/problems/265-initial-start-of-tenfourfoxTenFourFox: Discussion 2012-11-08T15:29:50Ztag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/205840992012-11-08T00:31:59Z2012-11-08T00:31:59ZInitial start of TenFourFox<div><p>Robert, this can have many reasons. It may be related to reading
databases at startup (and Safari does this as well on my G4
PowerBook, sometimes taking close to a minute before I can use it).
You could try TenFourFox 17 beta, which is a lot faster than 10.0
reading e.g. the database that contains bookmarks. You could also
try starting the browser with add-ons disabled to see if an
extension causes the slowdown.</p></div>Chris (chtrusch)tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/205840992012-11-08T02:07:27Z2012-11-08T02:07:27ZInitial start of TenFourFox<div><p>The reasons Chris mentioned all apply, but the biggest one is
that as of Firefox 5 Mozilla requires all of its internal libraries
to be linked into a superlibrary called XUL. This library is quite
large and makes up the majority of Firefox/TenFourFox; the G5
version is over 40MB in size. When the application starts up, this
superlibrary is scanned and this does indeed read quite a bit all
at once from the hard disk. The other browsers amortize this over
several smaller libraries, which don't all load at once.</p>
<p>The advantage to XUL is that a certain amount of overhead code
can be dispensed with since everything is in one place, and all the
browser features are immediately available once XUL has finished
loading. That said, even if we didn't have those consolations,
there's nothing we can do about it; Firefox 5+ (and indeed any
current Gecko) won't work any other way.</p></div>Cameron Kaisertag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/205840992012-11-08T02:47:11Z2012-11-08T02:47:11ZInitial start of TenFourFox<div><p>Thanks. It all makes sense. And yes, once it loads the browser
is<br>
quick and responsive.</p></div>Robert Bowerstag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/205840992012-11-08T15:29:47Z2012-11-08T15:29:47ZInitial start of TenFourFox<div><p>Excellent. Feel free to reopen this ticket if you had any other
questions related to it (just reply and it will be reopened;
otherwise, no further reply is needed).</p></div>Cameron Kaiser