Back in January we reported that Mozilla Firefox would get faster startup times on Windows. The patch, proposed when Firefox 4 was still in beta, has been implemented in Firefox 7, which is currently available as a beta version for all supported operating systems. Without repeating what has already been said, the patch basically preloads [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Slow Performing Firefox Add-ons Revisited
Last month Mozilla published a list of slow performing add-ons for the Firefox web browser. The findings back then were that add-ons increases the startup time of the web browser by ten percent on average. That’s a lot, considering that five add-ons would on average increase the browser’s start-up time by 50%. The basic idea [...]
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Start Faster Promises Faster Firefox Startup On Windows
In January we reported on a story that looked at a proposed patch to speed up the loading of Firefox on Windows systems. The proposed patch, nothing more than 20 lines of code, was said to improve the startup time by a factor of up to 2. The integration proofed to be more difficulty than [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox On Windows To Get Faster Startup Times
When you look at complaints of Firefox users you notice that startup times of the browser are mentioned a lot. Most users state that Firefox’s startup times are slower than those of comparable web browsers on the same system. And while I’m personally not able to see much of a difference between the startup time [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Remove Locales To Make Firefox Start Faster
It happens quite often that Firefox users tell me that their browser is not the fastest to start up. I personally do not have the problem at all, but this can be attributed to the solid state drive the browser is installed on, and the fact that I do not run excessive amounts of extensions [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Quick Overview of Firefox Startup Options
Most Firefox users know that they can start Firefox so that it automatically displays one website which is also known as the homepage. Readers of my blog also know that it is possible to load multiple homepages by separating every website with the | char. To load Ghacks and Google whenever Firefox starts users would [...]