Old thread I know, but I found it searching for a solution to the same problem described by OP. I have a dialup internet connection (yes, some of us out in the country still have only dialup, unless we pay $500 for satellite hardware and $80 a month for the service, which is unreliable in bad weather and I live in Florida - nuff said) and when I'm off line OpenOffices.org starts very, very slowly. Well over a minute. But when I'm on line it starts within 2 seconds. This is regardless of whether I just booted or not and whether I have already ran it once. So I'd like to know from WhatsHisName or the OP if this issue has been resolved. I thought the whole idea of open source was so we know what's going on by looking at the source and by knowing it's not doing questionable things like "phoning home". Do the developers actually do anything with this information? And exactly what information is it sending? Reminds me of Microsoft. Except we don't pay for it. Next thing we know we'll have ads in our software. Anyway, I'd like to know how to disable it without searching through the hundreds of pages of source, modifying it and then compiling. I don't mind doing a little of that, but it seems to me like it would take days just to find it in the source code. I'm using Fedora 14 64 bit on a Toshiba laptop with intel board, i7 CPU, Kinston SSD
and 4gb ram.

I have always found that OO 2.x opened slowly the first time I opened it after a reboot.

From then on, it opens quickly until the next reboot.

I always put it down to its being a really really big program. OO v. 2.x had a lot of functionality that v. 1.x did not have, plus lots of other changes.

OO 3.x is quicker on the initial start than OO v. 2.x. You may want to look at that.

I'm looking forward to LibreOffice release. What I've seen so far in LibreOffice I like.

Thanks frankbell. I'm using version 3. I've tried every trick I can find on the net but still have the same problem. Using Fedora 14 64 bit OpenOffice.org that comes with the distribution downloaded directly from Fedora site. Without an internet connection it takes about 40 seconds to load. With the internet connection up takes less than 2 seconds. I'll post again if I come up with something.

This LQ thread may help. It wasn't a sneaky "phone home" thing -- it was local DNS mis-configured so resolving the local host went out to the Internet so had to time out when the Internet wasn't connected. Tinkster was on to this in post #2 in this thread.

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Thanks, SharpyWarpy.

The thread started with v. 2.0 vs. v 1.x. That's what I based my comments on.

I have 3.x on one machine (Ubuntu where I do most of my document work) and 2.x on another (Debian where I do most of my web work).

Both of them show pretty much the same initialization behavior (slow on first startup after a reboot, much faster on subsequent startups), though v. 3.x is noticeably-but-not-a-lot quicker, with the qualification that one machine (Debian) has twice as many RAMs as the other one.

(I think I've been using OO since v. 1.5 or something like that; it was definitely before v. 2.0. I started using it in my Windows days.)

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Thanks very much, catkin. You lead me in the right direction. I installed dnsmasq and ran it. Now OpenOffice starts up within 2 seconds whether or not the dial up internet connection is on line. Thanks again, your're a lifesaver.

Glad you found a solution -- and dnsmasq is a nice utility

Threads can be marked SOLVED via the Thread Tools menu.

I should add here that I also modified my /etc/hosts file line:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 toshiba
to this
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 toshiba localhost.(none)
Note the last item in the line. This was done after obtaining info retrieved from running the "domainname" command, which in my case is (none) because I never set the domain name on my home network.
Now if I can figure out how I will try to mark this thread "Solved", although I think that option is for the original poster? Thanks to all that contributed to this thread.

Thanks for the update, especially that (none) part could help someone.

Yes -- marking threads SOLVED is for the OP. I oopsied about that

I picked that up somewhere else while searching the web for a solution, I can't remember exactly where now. My age and bad memory are ganging up on me.
As for the "oopsy", I think you can be forgiven, what with all the help you have been and will continue to be, I'm sure.