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Question #78462 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/78462

    Status: Open => Answered

actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
You don't need to. root is not  program, its an ccount. by running sudo
-s you have gined a root shell. A better option is:

sudo -i

as all the settings will be from your users home folder and not /root

Using a different bootloader will never speed up the access to a storage
device. That simply makes no sense at all. I think you should look at
what grub2 actually does before persuing grub2

From: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html

GRUB 2 targets at the following goals:

    * Scripting support, such as conditionals, loops, variables and functions.
    * Graphical interface.
    * Dynamic loading of modules in order to extend itself at the run time rather than at the build time.
    * Portability for various architectures.
    * Internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII character code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics console, and so on.
    * Real memory management, to make GNU GRUB more extensible.
    * Modular, hierarchical, object-oriented framework for file systems, files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, partition tables and OS loaders.
    * Cross-platform installation which allows for installing GRUB from a different architecture.
    * Rescue mode saves unbootable cases. Stage 1.5 was eliminated.
    * Fix design mistakes in GRUB Legacy, which could not be solved for backward-compatibility, such as the way of numbering partitions. 

At no point does it mention speed. USB is slow compared to internal PATA
/ SATA disks so the slowness is expected.

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