289245 - An application, even a Java app, should never take two minutes to launch

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[dnewlander]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

I hate Microsoft. I like open source. But if you can't fix Firefox to actually
LAUNCH within less than two minutes, I will delete it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox
2. Wait two, three, maybe four minutes
3. Wait some more

Actual Results:  
Firefox launches

Expected Results:  
Lauched in less than two to four minutes

Your bug tracking system is great. Probably. I don't know. This isn't a ****
bug. This is **** feedback.

Feedback should be handled separately. Maybe you geeks don't understand that,
but feedback is a different beast than bug reporting. This may or not be a bug.
But it's DEFINITELY feedback. But you have no **** FEEDBACK system, so I have
to report it as a bug. Some "open source" system you've got. I'd love to make
Firefox my browser of choice. But if it can't open/launch in less than two
minutes, and if it can't actually find a **** website when my WiFi network is
connected, who the **** cares if it's Microsoft or not?

Oh, by the way, Thunderbird does the same damn thing. I'll be damned if I'm
going to fill out a separate "bug report" for that. You need a damn FEEDBACK
forum, idiots.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

http://www.mozilla.org/support/

Comment 2

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

Firefox should never take two minutes to start on any machine that can correctly
run Windows XP.
It sounds like you do have a bug :-)

I don't get the reference to java, does your starting page include a java applet
? Try using a blank starting page, to compare. Try with a fresh new profile in
case this is a profile related problem, cf
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile
Check how much ram you have. If it's clearly insufficient to run windows XP, or
if other application already use most of it, then you might get such an effect.
Firefox is rather memory hungry, and will not work properly without a quite
large amount of ram available. K-Meleon, http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/, can be
an alternate in that case.