Firefox opens slow

[GammaPoint]

Hi, I noticed today that my Firefox takes a long time to open (~1 min). All pages are quickly loaded though after it's started, it's just the initial starting up that takes so long. The only thing that I think I've changed was that I updated Java to Sun's Java, but I believe I took care of the Java symbolic links to Mozilla. Anyone have any experience with this or know what I may try to figure out what exacly the issue is?

Thanks in advance!

[sej7278]

i think that's just a given with anything mozilla. mine starts slow too, as does thunderbird, and thats on a 3ghz/sata/1.5gb machine....

[jdeslip]

If you upgrade firefox, the first time it runs, it will be slow to load. After that it should be fast though. Perhaps you should look into the plugin situation again - what's in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ? Also, try running it as a different user (login as root perhaps) to see if it is also slow as that user. If not, something is likeley messed up in yoru .mozilla folder.

[joe.pelayo]

Originally Posted by GammaPoint

Hi, I noticed today that my Firefox takes a long time to open (~1 min). All pages are quickly loaded though after it's started, it's just the initial starting up that takes so long. The only thing that I think I've changed was that I updated Java to Sun's Java, but I believe I took care of the Java symbolic links to Mozilla. Anyone have any experience with this or know what I may try to figure out what exacly the issue is?

Thanks in advance!

Which Firefox version are you talking about?

I have never had problems with the one I download from www.mozilla.com and somewhere here I read that the Firefox 2.0 included in the development repo is somewhat slow.

Joe.

[GammaPoint]

It's better now. I don't remember if I restarted or just woke up the next morning and had it work. Thanks for the comments everyone