Slow "import hippo" and other on web browser activity startup

[William Cohen]

William Cohen wrote:

> According to the profile the "import hippo" is taking a couple of 
> seconds. I tried it from an interactive python command line and it does 
> seems to take a while (2 or 3 seconds). Why does the import take so long?
> 
> Where is the code for browser_startup, main and present to be found?
> 
> -Will
> 

There are other applications that are importing hippo, so speeding that up will 
also help Read, Write and NewReader activities.

-Will