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(Unverified)Sep 19th 2010 1:39PM
I never really understood the obsession to make programs (or OSes for that matter) start and shutdown "almost instant[ly]". I can't remember the when I last started my web browser on the machine I am composing this comment upon. Let's say that it was one week ago.
So, if the browser started up in, say, 15 seconds instead of 30 one week ago why would that matter?
5hreDDySep 19th 2010 3:23PM
Yes, but not all of us can afford to rack up our electricity bill by leaving our computers on 24/7.
(Unverified)Sep 19th 2010 6:00PM
It seems that more technical users tend to leave their browsers open for longer periods of time, while less technical users tend to shut their browsers down more frequently (daily or even multiple times a day). They tend to shut their computers down at the end of the day.
My mother will browse to a site and when she is done she will close the browser.
Other examples are a work computer at the office and a shared family computer.
The bottom line is that average (less technical) users are more common than technical users, so their experience of the browser startup is not insignificant.
(Unverified)Sep 19th 2010 4:28PM
It depends on your workflow if that works for you great ;-)
Normal ppl close it a lot more often... or would if startup was FAAST.
heh
(Unverified)Sep 19th 2010 10:07PM
5hRreDDy, some people hibernate their computer. On Windows, this means the power is shut off but the memory is written to disk - you don't need to to close off programs.