[arch-general] Is preload really working ??

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On 05/06/2010 01:51 PM, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
> preload works for what it is made.
>
> It is not made to speed up firefox startup time.
> Firefox loads a bunch of sqlite files in your /home. This and other
> things might explain your slow startup time of firefox.
>
> One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs
> (doing it the right way, else you loose your data). This have been
> discussed somewhere I think.
> How else ?
>
> Please complain about Firefox for its slow startup time and not about
> preload for not speeding it up.
>
> Try chromium if you want quick startup time ;-)
>
>

I can't leave firefox for it has my favorite addons :)
I have chromium too, but I use it less often when I want to check mail, 
facebook, etc. - normally five minute tasks.

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