Hard drive usage ... :)

Aaron Lawrence

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Aug 19, 2005, 10:15:53 AM8/19/05

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On a laptop, I really notice how much Mozilla uses the drive. It's still
quite sluggish to startup the first time.

I can quantify that now: task manager shows that Mozilla reads 13MB from
the hard disk.

Starting IE reads 1kB :) yes I know that is not a fair comparison ...

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Boris Zbarsky

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Aug 19, 2005, 11:02:17 AM8/19/05

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Aaron Lawrence wrote:
> On a laptop, I really notice how much Mozilla uses the drive. It's still
> quite sluggish to startup the first time.
>
> I can quantify that now: task manager shows that Mozilla reads 13MB from
> the hard disk.

Right. Starting mozilla has to read the Mozilla libraries into memory.

> Starting IE reads 1kB :) yes I know that is not a fair comparison ...

Right, because the IE libraries are already in memory -- some load at Windows
startup automatically, others are loaded by various other Windows apps.

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Bob

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Aug 20, 2005, 7:39:59 AM8/20/05

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Aaron Lawrence wrote:
> On a laptop, I really notice how much Mozilla uses the drive. It's still
> quite sluggish to startup the first time.
>
> I can quantify that now: task manager shows that Mozilla reads 13MB from
> the hard disk.
>
> Starting IE reads 1kB :) yes I know that is not a fair comparison ...
>

85% of IE is preloaded in Windows.
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Niels Madsen

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Sep 11, 2005, 1:28:28 PM9/11/05

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Bob wrote:
> Aaron Lawrence wrote:
>> On a laptop, I really notice how much Mozilla uses the drive. It's
>> still quite sluggish to startup the first time.
>> I can quantify that now: task manager shows that Mozilla reads 13MB
>> from the hard disk.
>>
>> Starting IE reads 1kB :) yes I know that is not a fair comparison ...
> 85% of IE is preloaded in Windows.

Is there anyway to do the same with Firefox/Thunderbird, i know IE is a
pretty integrated part of Windows now, but isn't there some way to
automatically load Firefox dll's each time i boot?

BaBeL FiSh

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Nov 3, 2005, 3:43:35 PM11/3/05

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"Niels Madsen" <ni...@gameblaster.net> wrote in message
news:dg1pg1$3g...@ripley.aoltw.net...

Putting the below in the "target box" under the shortcut's properties keeps
it in the prefetch once you've loaded it once. Works for me.

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1