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jscribble	2010-02-07 , 19:14
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I have set a 256mb swap on my external card (class 6), and set firefox to 16mb cache, and firefox now runs better than microb, although the initial load time is about the same. Has anyone found any tips on getting firefox to start up faster?

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Crashdamage	2010-02-07 , 19:26
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Originally Posted by jscribble

I have set a 256mb swap on my external card (class 6), and set firefox to 16mb cache

That's a lotta swap for the browser, and even on a class 6 card would be relatively dog-slow access times. The N900 already has 256mb RAM + 768mb fast swap available for Firefox (or anything else) to access already. Are you sure it really runs faster, or is it just wanting to feel some reward for your efforts?

Has anyone found any tips on getting firefox to start up faster?

I suppose you could try to figure out how to get Firefox to pre-load itself in memory at boot like MicroB does. I'm not sure how to go about it though and no doubt would be really tricky to do.

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	ToJa92	2010-02-07 , 19:41
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage

I suppose you could try to figure out how to get Firefox to pre-load itself in memory at boot like MicroB does. I'm not sure how to go about it though and no doubt would be really tricky to do.

The Mozilla team would probably have to write a pre-loader for this to happen. Or you can open Firefox and have it open at all times, I guess it's pretty much the same thing

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GI jack	2010-02-07 , 19:57
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I run firefox on my x86 PC. I saw firefox on for the n900 so I downloaded it.

I still use firefox on my desktop, but it runs slower than the default browser, and I see no benefit from it.

I took firefox off my n900

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jscribble	2010-02-07 , 20:04
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Originally Posted by Crashdamage

The N900 already has 256mb RAM + 768mb fast swap available for Firefox
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I should clarify, I have an n810, and I have been timing page loads to usable, not a perfect benchmark, but there is a difference of several seconds on most pages.

I also set prefetch.next to false, which made the awesome bar a lot more usable.

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jscribble	2010-02-07 , 20:07
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Originally Posted by ToJa92

Or you can open Firefox and have it open at all times

That's exactly what I've been doing. It really doesn't seem to slow other apps down, I can run video on Canola without a problem with firefox hiding in the shadows. It would be nice to have a loader at boot, but it sounds like a pain for anyone to build a solution.

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maxximuscool	2010-02-07 , 20:22
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Firefox is really crap comparing to MicroB. I enable flash support and yet it's can't even display flash properly. Without flash enable it's slow as hell to load and sometimes even hang randomly if the web page is graphic intensive.

I'll stick with Micro B for now.

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born2wonder	2010-02-07 , 20:33
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Originally Posted by ToJa92

The Mozilla team would probably have to write a pre-loader for this to happen. Or you can open Firefox and have it open at all times, I guess it's pretty much the same thing

Prelinking might help here.

Shaq