Speed up Firefox

[martinz]

One thing that has always left me puzzled is why Firefox takes so long to startup. Both Opera and Internet Explorer take just seconds to get up and running, but on all four of my computers Firefox takes between 10 and 20 seconds to start (even with no extensions installed).

If you find yourself in a similar situation then what you might need is the open source Firefox Preloader.

It can be set to startup when you turn your computer on, and with it Firefox will always be at your beck and call. If there are multiple versions of Firefox installed on your computer you can decide which one you would like it to work with.

This feature does come at a cost though. When the preloader first started up on my computer it used about 4MB of memory itself, and Firefox was using about 10MB. Those aren’t drastic numbers, but for those of you conscious about the memory usage you might want to think twice before using the preloader. Also, when you close Firefox it doesn’t actually close all the way, instead it’s just tucked away so that it will still start quickly the next time you go to use it.

[Scar]

try this. It sped up the startup time and over all usage of firefox for me. No extra program or extension needed:

[ClickFanatic]

Scar. That's not going to make Firefox start up much faster. Those settings are used to optimise page load times for your internet connection.
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[LP-SolidRaven]

If you disable firefox its updater and start up checks you can get it to start quite fast as well. Not advised though.
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[Jacky]

Mine starts faster than Internet Explorer, at 3 seconds.
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[ClickFanatic]

[Pie32]

[martinz]

Appreciate your advice on how the disable firefox updater and start up checks. While its not advisable, Firefox don't give up updates daily, so if we know of an update, we can proceed to update manually. This will save lots of time during the daily start ups. Detail steps appreciated, thanks in advance

[kutar]

Another skill: Put Firefox in RAM Drive.
If you do so for your firefox file and cache, you will get the speed up of start up and while using it.
Detail please refer to the links:

Running firefox in system RAM:
http://www.wikihow.com/Speed-U.....-It-In-RAM

*Trick: specify where the profile are:
start R:\Firefox\firefox.exe -profile R:\FFProfiles
where R is the ram drive letter

Cache in ram disk:
http://www.mozilla.org/support.....h_memcache
http://www.mozilla.org/support.....#oth_cache

More about the cache of firefox:
http://developer.mozilla.org/e.....nces#Cache

Hope it help
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[Jacky]

[LP-Harvey]

You guys are going to love this. Sadly, I don't have the link on me, but Firefox 3 uses a brand new memory allocator than the default one it uses right now. The new allocator is active in Release Candidate 3, if you want to see it in action.

Load times are faster, and total memory usage is lower than it used to be when you left it running.

Funny how Mozilla has denied any memory leakage by Firefox for the last two years... and they suddenly decided to "improve" it.

[ruyss]

Reading through this post made me decide to just wait for Firefox 3. I have been looking for ways to speed up Firefox but nothing gives any visible improvement.

And since they already released the betas for Firefox 3, my guess is that it won't be too long before Firefox 3 gets an official release.
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