30 seconds to open firefox - is that normal?
30 seconds to open firefox - is that normal?
Every time I open firefox it takes at least 30 seconds. Is that normal for the home edition running xfce? My home page is about:blank and I have no extensions. I have a softmod with original hard drive. My cpu rarely goes to 100% and ram is always less than half. The only thing I can think of is that either the original hard drive is slowing things down, or I didn't instal properly, or need to drink more coffee to stay awake while using Gentoox .
It's not abnormal to use up to 30 sec. to open firefox..
Keep in mind the Xbox has 64Mb of ram - no matter how much it frees up, it will never be enough.
Compared to other 733Mhz systems it's not really slow..
And yes - you are correct - the disk is very very slow.
installing native would speed things up - and yes, you can run a graphics UI with native too - but this will slow the box up compared to a text-only UI.
Steinar T
Keep in mind the Xbox has 64Mb of ram - no matter how much it frees up, it will never be enough.
Compared to other 733Mhz systems it's not really slow..
And yes - you are correct - the disk is very very slow.
installing native would speed things up - and yes, you can run a graphics UI with native too - but this will slow the box up compared to a text-only UI.
Steinar T
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i leanred to just use my x-dsl live cd when i want to use firefox, its alot faster (not slamming gentoox, i love gentoox way more than dsl) I dont know why its faster, but it just is on dsl. You could try that....and nice thing about dsl is it can be ran on live cd, so u can just pop in the disc when u wanna browse