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nostalgia · 06-26-2009, 09:15 AM

My Firefox needs almost a half minute for a cold start and 11 for a startups after that. I have tried reinstalling Firefox, creating a new profile, deleting many bookmarks, but they all didn't really work.

I don't have any themes. I've limited my extensions to the ones I really need:
- AdBlock Plus
- FEBE
- Greasemonkey
- IE Tab
- LeechBlock (atm disabled)
- NoSquint
- SkipScreen (atm disabled)
(and Java Quick Starter 1.0 is there as well)

And it's still slow. (Unless those startup times are considered normal?)

Now I was just wondering, do changes made to the userChrome file affect the startup time? I've made lots of changes and I couldn't think of any other reason for this slowness..
I'm using Windows XP Professional, 2 GHz, 2GB of RAM.

I'm getting pretty sick of this as I really love Firefox and would like it to startup within a few seconds. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

06-26-2009, 09:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
nostalgia Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 30 OS: Windows XP	userChrome anything to do with Firefox startup speed? My Firefox needs almost a half minute for a cold start and 11 for a startups after that. I have tried reinstalling Firefox, creating a new profile, deleting many bookmarks, but they all didn't really work. I don't have any themes. I've limited my extensions to the ones I really need: - AdBlock Plus - FEBE - Greasemonkey - IE Tab - LeechBlock (atm disabled) - NoSquint - SkipScreen (atm disabled) (and Java Quick Starter 1.0 is there as well) And it's still slow. (Unless those startup times are considered normal?) Now I was just wondering, do changes made to the userChrome file affect the startup time? I've made lots of changes and I couldn't think of any other reason for this slowness.. I'm using Windows XP Professional, 2 GHz, 2GB of RAM. I'm getting pretty sick of this as I really love Firefox and would like it to startup within a few seconds. Any help will be greatly appreciated!