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July
2025
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Measurement of the launch speed of web browsers in Linux

18 July 2025 17:18

In the continuation of the article on the transition from the version of LXle 04 04.22.04, it was measured by the launch time of the web browsers.

Computer configuration and software

Laptop asus eeepc 1015b
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc, versions 0404
Processor: AMD C-30 (64-bit, 1-core, frequency of 1200 MHz, L1-Kesh 64 KB, L2-Kesh 512 KB)
Memory: Dimm DDR3-1600 1-channel mode, 8 GIB volume
Video card: Radeon HD 6250
SATA controller: AMD SATA CONTROLLER
NZHMD: WDC WD3200BPVT-8 (volume 320GB)

Operating system: LXle 04.22.5 LTS (output of the command LSB_release -a: Ubuntu 04/22/5 LTS).
Linux core: 5.15.0-143-geneeric .

Measurement of the launch time of web browsers from Flatpak, Snap and installation from APT

On the installation of Chromium and Firefox applications and display their labels in the LXDE shell launching menu is described in the article Installation of Flatpak and Snap applications in the LXDE menu.

I measured the launch time of browsers and created the table:

Browser Launch time
Chromium (Flatpak) * 1st launch 0:49
Chromium (Flatpak) * 2nd launch 0: 11
Firefox (Flatpak) * 1st launch 0: 23
Firefox (Flatpak) * 2nd launch 0:13
Chromium (Snap) * * 1st launch 0:42
Chromium (Snap) * * 2nd launch 0:13
Firefox ****1st launch 0:37
Firefox ****2nd launch 0:20

* installed from Flatpak.
* * installed from Snap
***installed using APT Install from Ubuntu repositories.

Conclusions

In speed the first launch in the first place Firefox from Flatpak . The speed of the second launch is also quite good - 13 seconds.
In speed of the second launch in the first place Chromium from Flatpak - 11 seconds.
*Slowly in speed in both tests (1st and 2nd launch) Firefox from the Ubuntu "Jammy Universe" repositories (indicated in the /etc/apt/sources.list file).



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