Maybe under a second to maximise the browser

Under a second to being able to use the current tab and browse websites if you want me to be specific.

gestures

Why? You don’t have a keyboard?

possibly flashblocker with a switch in the menu

Why have a switch in the menu? It’s better to just be able to click the element to show the the content like most mobile browsers and the most popular flash blocker for Firefox do.

Ben: thanks for the tip. Another one for making ff faster is to have different profiles for the different kind of jobs. Then you can install the plugins you use on the profiles you need them. I have firebug installed on my work profile and keep one profile clean for browsing.

As for Chrom – simply lying and trying to impress people with a 1 second startup time just shows that people ‘running Linux’ include idiots that expect people to believee something like that. Maybe under a second to maximise the browser…. and the initial startup time isn’t so important anyway.

The key to Firefox is that – the basic browser is too basic and needs initl setting up – Mousegestustures etc. The fault with Firefox is that 70% of people don’t install any add-ons. Firefox should build in basic essentials (like gestures, possibly flashblocker with a switch in the menu etc) to give a better basic experience.

I run Firefox in Linux – I launch it with CTRL ALT F – which is a keyboard shortcut for “sh -c “export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1; firefox-3.5 -no-remote -P”" – so for me it’s generally very fast, stable, and far superior to IE. But then, most of us here are not average users.

For me, running Linux.
1. Takes less than a second to start with a 200+ tabs session, although it probably takes a minute to finish loading the content of every tab.
2. 80MB out of 4GB is much?
3. Makes no sense… I guess this is the famous US banking systems you’re talking about?
4. You forgot to check every page in the results.

And it has SP’s and patches like OS too. Its an OS, definitely.

Which is much better than re-installing everything for every update, like certain browsers do…