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>>1, and here's my data. I've been running these a few times and averaging the results.
Hardware: Athlon 64 3500+ Venice, 1 GB RAM, SATA HD
OS: Windows 2000, SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE
Application: Furfox 1.5
1. First startup time
Windows: 5.9 seconds
Linux: 10.8 seconds (83% slower)
2. Second startup time *
Windows: 0.7 seconds
Linux: 6.7 seconds (857% slower)
3. Next startups time
Windows: 0.7 seconds
Linux: 1.6 seconds (129% slower)
4. Launching a new window (by clicking on the icon) after the browser is open
Windows: 0.2 seconds
Linux: 0.75 seconds (275% slower)
This is what I'm saying. It's notably slower when creating windows, and always slower loading. Surprisingly, the system cache leaves much to be desired too; for some reason the second time around seems as if it weren't fully cached.