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- tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/
- unk_b, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It work for me
- gmacster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Works on my mac as well.
Went from five bounces to 1. :)
Yay mac mini! - onestep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2worked for me on the Mac. Went from 17 bounces on the dock to 4...
nice. - vahnx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My Firefox launches in 1 second with my tweaks and preloader =D
- mwallace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Alternate link: http://gratisdei.com/FF.htm#ccleaner
- estacado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Defrag!
- braeken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gonna try it at home since FF is definitely a lot slower to start up compared to IE.
- elfn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd prefer something from Mozilla's addon site.. I can't find this listed there.
- TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1im noticiing that its working for all the mac users cause im on a mac to and that sucker bounced with zest and speend..dugg
- tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Firefox Preloader works great and launches FF pretty quick.
- kenchie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Worked for me on SuSe Linux 10.0!
- Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1is it that big of a deal?
when i use windows i open firefox. then i close firefox. then i turn off the computer..
who gives a ***** about start up time? honestly. on my older (still respectable) freebsd machine.. epiphany starts up in a couple of seconds. but still is anyone constantly opening and closing a web browser all day? and if so, WHY? keep it open its not a big deal. and its not a big resource hog considering i have an older machine - MatthewK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use UPX to compress executables and DLLs. One of the biggest bottlenecks when loading a program is the hard drive. Firefox.exe is about 7mb, but compressed with UPX it's only 3mb. Works great with other huge executables too (e.g. Adobe Photoshop).
http://upx.sourceforge.net/ - TigerX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BugMeNot2 wrote:
"(0.7+ - 1.9+) There's a version 1.9?"
Yes, there is, but it refers to the version of the Gecko. This is where things get a touch confusing. Currently, there are two branches of Firefox in development. The actual branch contains the final version of Gecko 1.8 plus the UI improvements on top. The trunk is where Gecko 1.9 is being developed. The branch will continue development onto Firefox 2.0 (with only slight changes to Gecko 1.8) , while the truck will continue development onto Firefox 3.0 (which will ship with Gecko 1.9).
Pretty graphical explanation:
http://cbeard.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/releaseroadmapdraftv1_2.png
The current revisions numbers are:
Firefox 1.5 Release: 1.8
Firefox Branch: 1.8 (subject to change eventually -- probably to 1.8.1)
Firefox Trunk: 1.9a1 - ericpp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Firefox always starts up quicker the second time I open it. I think windows does a little prefetching or some other crazyness to make the second load faster...
- Drood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Mindstormer said "pfft, its REALLY sad if it takes more than 5 seconds tops! "
No. What's REALLY sad is people bragging about loading times of a ***** web browser. - jayred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Alternate direct download link: http://gratisdei.com/chromecleaner.xpi
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0new preloader has more options including reload firefox. ccleaner works well. cut my firefox start time in 1/2 even after using preloader :P
good find....dugg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My computer isn't THAT old, but its not the latest either. 2.2GHz with 512MB of RAM.
With a fresh profile and 0 extensions, it loads in 1/2 seconds for me as well. But I have some 40 extensions installed. With each install and uninstall, it slowly bogged Firefox down. This seemed to fix it.
Sorry it didn't work for more of you, but it worked wonders for me ;)
Josh - antiwmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and.. in linux, you can load libs to your ram and load any apps in under a second.
- ggriffit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So why don't all the mac users just add ram and never quit the program. I have it open 100% of the time then just open and close the windows. It's instant and doesn't have to load stuff all the time.
Kinda one of the major features of the mac os's...just leave stuff open and you're good to go! Photoshop, Firefox, Mail, etc. just leave it open and then it's always at hand. - Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Your going crazy. :P How can you not understand it, there was only one typo. Well it is 8am; so i'll blame it on that"
No, it wasn't the typo. It's what he said. Read his post again, slowly, it doesn't make sense man! It doesn't make sense! - freonchill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you shouldnt need over 1ghz to SURF THE WEB
so a sub 1.5ghz machine isnt a dinosaur for surfing
for playing movies (dvd / divx), mp3's, games, etc - yea - Historian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Total digg effect. "SQL error: #08004Too many connections"
- antiwmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0digg effect. how many times we need to ask you to coralize, lamer
- quietk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0link dead
- Googled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What are you all complaining about mine takes like 3 seconds to loads :|
- sulestis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how about you spend your time working toward an upgrade instead of looking for ways to make firefox launch in 6 seconds
if firefox took more then 2 seconds to launch each time i'd switch to IE out of pure annoyance - benf2004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That really didn't seem to help at all. FF used to load pretty quickly on this machine even the first time I loaded it, but since I upgraded to 1.5 it takes forever to load it for the first time. It took about 30 seconds on my P4 3.6 GHz w/HT and 1 GB RAM as opposed to 2 or 3 seconds like before. I guess I won't really know if this helped any until next time I restart my comp and start FF.
@kday: I hate to break it to you but you don't know what you're talking about. We have a machine in the control room at work with a 400 Mhz PII and 128 MB of RAM. That is a dinosaur. 512 MB RAM = decent. Those processors are not slow either. 2.8 GHz? They still sell new desktops with slower processors. I would hardly call that a dinosaur. - jaypee68, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Firefox launches for me in 1-2 seconds. No need for an extension here.
- benf2004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not only did it load a lot quicker the first time I started it up after a reboot, but I've been having trouble with the browser lagging when using tabbed browsing features or scrolling with the scroll wheel since I upgraded to 1.5 and this appears to have taken care of that as well.
- TheGSRGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0FF Preloader makes launching instantaneous. It essentially keeps Firefox running all the time. That's fine for me, I have 1GB of RAM.
- reversial, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've got an old crappy win2k machine (it came with ME, talk about embarrassing). This really helps, halfs my load time.
- kday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, 24.5 seconds to launch firefox. What are you using? A 386 with 16 MB of ram?
- aluminumpork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Firefox has always started slowly on my computers. None of them are "dinosaurs". The laptop is an Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB RAM with XP Pro. The desktop is a P4 2.8Ghz with 512MB RAM. On the first run after windows loads, it usually takes 20 - 30 seconds to load. IE takes maybe 5 - 6 seconds. Anything to speed up Firefox loading is a digg to me.
- rm999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0are you sure it wasn't still in cache?
- stedios, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0.. FF launches in under 2 seconds, always for me.. how are you getting 24.5! ;(
- kday, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1aluminumpork ~
I hate to break it to you, but your computers are dinosaurs.
Athlon XP 1800+ = dinosaur
P4 2.8 = dinosaur
512 mb of ram = slow computer
Looks like you need a new laptop, more RAM, and either a Pentium Dual core or Athlon X2 (Dual core). Your equipment is obsolete according to me. - Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Went from 15 seconds to 6, pretty cool.
- mpeters13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0please clap your *****. firefox does take longer to launch than most browsers, even on newer machines. if you're trying to tell me i need to upgrade from an amd 64 3200+ w/ a 1gb of ram, WHICH IS plenty for running firefox, you have another thing coming. This extension is hard to test unless you reboot or something. firefox will always launch faster the second time. ps - the mac port is bloatware anyway.
- pynej, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Works for me, went from 10-12 bounces to just 2. ./Hugg's mac
- Kiri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Firefox is a memory hog. I have a Thinkpad T43 with a Pentium M at 2.2 GHz and 1 G of RAM and it still takes 10 seconds to load.
- ssaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Certainly reduced the launch time, can't say it was by 400% though ;o)
- dude3609, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://gratisdei.com/FF.htm#ccleaner
Mirror ^^
Not my site, but the link was on this site before it got the digg effect.
http://gratisdei.com/FF.htm#ccleaner
is the homepage.. So go there since the site got the digg effect. - ramsinks.com, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol.. even 1 sec would annoy me.
1.5 works fine - on clean systems. - Paradox183, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing that I didn't do in previous versions. Over time, Firefox eats up more and more resident memory with each page I visit, even after closing windows. Ending the Firefox process is the only way to free up that memory.
And the about:config tweaks don't work. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1>>Mindstormer said "pfft, its REALLY sad if it takes more than 5 seconds tops! "
>"No. What's REALLY sad is people bragging about loading times of a ***** web browser."
AAAAAHAHAHAHA!!! you just got PWNED!!! - mgreenwald, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Firefox Pre-Loader is really nice.
- MarkXL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have several windows open + tabs, iFox theme and 1 extension. Currently running at 24megs of ram.
Wtf are you doin Paradox? -
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