Speeding up Mozilla load time

[nukes]

Is there a way to make Mozilla run in a 'quick launch' mode in Linux like it can in Windows. Its almost always an app I use in X, and I could do without waiting for it all the time. I am happy to have a dock icon sitting at the bottom of the screen, but I don't want a browser window launched from .xinitrc. Any ideas?

[jkrohn]

Well I think the problem with a system tray app is that the different window managers
1) Don't all have trays
2) Don't use the same trays.

That aside, I was looking at the KDE API and got a few ideas.
http://developer.kde.org/documentati...ystemTray.html

1) Modify the actual code of the browser. This is the hard option IMO, and not that useful.
2) Create your own widget that will wrap around whatever process you call and use it's minimize maximize (may have to use both max buttons) and it's quit button.

I believe the second is possible, but my experience in that area of programming is sparse. That idea does seem like the best though since it would be re-useable for most any app.

Just my ideas.
Jkrohn

[iNeb]

Tried firebird? It's mozilla but faster =)

[nukes]

Yes I've tried firebird, but unless you can tell me a quick and easy way of exporting my 25mb+ of profile data into firebird (a straight copy doesn't work) then I'll be sticking with this as well.
BTW That wouldn't solve the problem, its because its having to load all the libraries to start with. They both use a lot of the same code, and the initial load times don't have a great gap between.
Maybe there's some way I can prefetch the libs into a cache and keep them there whether Mozilla's running or not?

[jkrohn]

Well the nice gentlemen in #KDE-devel have informed me that a program that frames a given process to send it to the system tray is not very possible

Jkrohn

[nukes]

Right, I'll work something else out then.

[jkrohn]

One thing that wouldn't be hard to do in theory.

If you have reserved psace on your desktop (like the bottom left/right in flux if your menu is on the bottom) you can edit mozilla and add a button to the toolbar.

This button would resize the window to say 5,5 and put it at 1,1. This is 100% possible using the window class of xul.

It is actually pretty darn easy too
This isn't the solution you are looking for but does offer you a way of pseudo putting it in the "system tray".

If it bothers you to be in the taskbar, you could always use kstart --skiptaskbar mozilla or something to that effect.

Jkrohn

[nukes]

I'll just leave it I think. I've been messing around with RAM disks and they weren't that much better.
They got the load time down to about 1.5 seconds, but take more time to initialise. Plus you need 75mb free ram.
Here's the script I wrote for it if anyones interested. Maybe tune2fs will help things in terms of speed. I'm looking for near-instant load times, but doubt I'll get it.

#!/bin/bash
echo An attempt at using a RAMDISK to improve system performance
modprobe rd rd_size=75000
echo Module: rd loaded
mke2fs /dev/ram0 > /dev/null
echo Filesystem created
mkdir /tmp/mozrd
cp -rp /usr/lib/mozilla/* /tmp/mozrd/
echo backup made.
echo Initiating library ramdisk
mount /dev/ram0 /usr/lib/mozilla
cp -rp /tmp/mozrd/* /usr/lib/mozilla
echo Unless you saw any errors, it should be working now.

Maybe keep the backup somewhere so it doesn't have to be done each time?