Otter Browser

20s for starting a browser? lol..

I’m old enough and monochrome enough to remember it used to take longer than that to get NCSA Mosaic started. ArcWeb was faster, and Webite blew both out of the water (being written in assembler).
This, indeed, were much simpler days (HTML 2.0) when scripting was unknown, HTML could be decoded simply in BASIC (no style stuff), and they hadn’t yet thought of “frameset”. :-)
It was also before The Browser Wars took off, so a rendered written today won’t be obsolete tomorrow. Also, different browsers often rendered the same HTML differently because it was just understood that HTML is for marking up text, not for all the precise DTP-like layout that is expected these days.

BTW, takes my 2.4GHz XP box longer than 20s to get Firefox started. ;-)

BTW, takes my 2.4GHz XP box longer than 20s to get Firefox started. ;-)

Yea modern browsers are real beasts. But I still thinks that 20s means a lot of overhead. Chrome starts almost instant on my pc, browsers on my Amiga systems starts in 5s or so.

20s → use a profiler!

Does it rebuild the font cache everytime?

No, it’s just a huge binary and RISC OS does not support the lazy paging of executables like UNIX and Windows, so it has to load all the data in at the beginning.

BTW, takes my 2.4GHz XP box longer than 20s to get Firefox started. ;-)

Have you thought about upgrading to a solid state disk drive. The difference is amazing.

6s to start Firefox on XP viewing it on RISCOS !RDPClient (adjusted for processor speed)