Speed up Firefox's Start Time


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I know there are some tricks to speed up the page load times in Firefox. But, is there anyway to speed up the time it takes to load FireFox in general? Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks! :cool:

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Mine takes about the same time as IE on normal occasions but it doesnt make my hard drive make noises like crazy. Its a quiet start up, which I like.

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you could use the prefetch thing although i dont know if it really works...

not sure about this, but this new program might help

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Edit: well **** it wont let me post the link. Just google "FireTweaker"

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i dont htink anythin will load up as fast as IE since IE is integrated right into windoze

Thats the reason.

On my Mac where they have the same conditions (neither IE or Mozilla Firefox is preloaded), Mozilla Firefox beats IE by ~1-2 sec.

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i've definitely noticed an improvement in speed by ditching tbe and using the prefetch option. if anyone wants a list of extensions i used to recreate the 'tbe effect' let me know.

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Yes, there is one, actually. It can work with most programs.

Right click the shortcut, click properties. Go to Target. After the quotations, add

Prefetch:1

And so on, with any program you would like to speed up (Prefetch:2, Prefetch:3, etc)

Again, with some it won' work, but with Firefox, it does.

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Yes, there is one, actually. It can work with most programs.

Right click the shortcut, click properties. Go to Target. After the quotations, add

Prefetch:1

And so on, with any program you would like to speed up (Prefetch:2, Prefetch:3, etc)

Again, with some it won' work, but with Firefox, it does.

only problem with that though is that most people launch from the start menuj where the shortcut can be ammended

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