Howto: Speed up Firefox startup September 14, 2008
Posted by Mayank in howto.Tags: firefox, howto
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Firefox is an amazing browser. The extensibility it provides by way of addons is becoming is problem too. When firefox startsup it usually checks for FireFox updates, updates to all addons and updates to all search engines. I did not, until today, realize that this process was such a time consuming process.
Turn off Automatic Update checks in Firefox and watch your browser popup as soon as u click on its icon 
. To turn them off go to Tools > Options > Advanced > Update check off all the Automatic Update checkboxes. This leaves the onus of checking for updates on you, but I guess that better than waiting till eternity for Firefox to startup while it checks for updates of all the plugins you’ve installed.
Hope this helps …
Enjoyyy!!!
Thank you …. I was afraid that I might have to leave my good old Firefox after Chrome checking out Chrome’s start up time
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Thanks! This really works!
Nice piece of advice
Thank you!
this was a GREAT tip and it has staying power….sped up my start up of Firefox to a time equal to Chrome. Thank you!
Same here. Very nice information
great tip! thanks
that was a great advice thank you it really inproved the start up time
Great advice! Really helps.
Can’t leave firefox. It lead the way long before Chrome. I’m still getting errors using Chrome with my banking so don’t use it much anymore. Don’t see a lot of advantages as of yet I guess.
great tips! Also, google “Firefox preloader” – it’s a little app that runs in the background/memory (very tiny) that starts up FF at lightning speed. It doesn’t work very well in Windows 7 but seems fine in XP. Thanks!