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What CPU? I use Chromium but I do have firefox installed so I just now saw how long it took to open up firefox the first time since boot.
On a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, it took about 3 seconds. On a 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo, it took about 4 seconds. If your CPU is much slower/older than that, I wouldn't be surprised at 10 seconds. (Both Debian 8 Jessie, XFCE4 desktop.)
I also tried it on a 1.5Ghz Atom and it took about half a minute for Firefox to open up, but it has various other things slowing it down also.
That seems sluggish to me, unless you have some heavyweight plugins (my only plugin in non-free flash).
I'd try temporarily moving ~/.mozilla to ~/DOTmozilla and ~/.cache/mozilla to ~/CACHEmozilla to start it "fresh". Maybe there's something in the mozilla user profile or settings mucking things up.
On the other hand...maybe it's not so sluggish. I think XFCE4 uses a lot of the same GTK2 libs that Firefox uses, so on my systems it would have less to load up. Maybe.
I have tried totally fresh profiles (without any addons) in the past. Load time becomes pretty fast but I simply cant afford to browse the web without security addons.
I think that 10 seconds may be about right, if those plugins account for about half of the 10 second initial load time. I don't think any amount of SSD speedup will help at all.
If you quit firefox, and then open it again, does it still take about 10 seconds? If so, then all of the file system cache already loaded in RAM (super fast) didn't really help...load time is CPU limited. On my systems, the second load was only marginally faster, if at all.
If /home is on the hard drive then all the extras are being loaded from it rather than your new SSD. You could mount bind your cache folder and so on to a sub for in /var which is on your ssd. That would likely speed it up a bit.
Personally, I don't see why you are using Ghostery and UBlock Origin. I removed ghostery in favor of unlock a while ago and haven't noticed any down sides. But perhaps you have your reasons.
I have tried totally fresh profiles (without any addons) in the past. Load time becomes pretty fast but I simply cant afford to browse the web without security addons.
I can't say with certainty, because I do not use most of the plugins that you use (but I have used NoScript, Ublock Origin, and Adblock Plus), however, I've never used two or more of a category of plugins that is inspecting Web traffic for various features.
When I'm using my employer's systems, I use what they provide. When I'm using my own, I generally use Ublock Origin, and not much else. I'm not that worried about what may or may not happen. Should a tragedy occur, I'll scrap and rebuild a system. Reality is that I've used systems for decades and had less than one handful of intrusions, and 3/4 or more of them have been on systems I was using with others. I've had one Email client temporarily corrupted; it took all of five minutes to fix, and therefore my conclusion is that the platforms I'm using and the information I'm accessing is not ultra sensitive and not highly sought. If it were, I'd put a fortress around it, but it wouldn't be through the use of browser plugins; I suggest that is a band aide at best.
Dump several of them, just as a test and see what happens. Fewer plugins = less overhead.
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