# Firefox Startup

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-startup/182729>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [March 21, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-startup/182729 "2006-03-21T01:33:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maxtr0sity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maxtr0sity](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maxtr0sity)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-startup/182729/1 "2006-03-21T01:33:50Z")

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My friend recently moved from IE to FF, however, FF takes about ten seconds to start up. It’s not a problem with RAM or CPU power, both are plenty, but I can’t figure out why it’s taking so long. Are there any tweaks?

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**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-startup/182729/2 "2006-03-21T01:40:53Z")

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[https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/](https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/)

i searched around and they all said this helps a ton on boot ups.  
forum i found the info at (also saw it a few other places):  
[http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=295190](http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=295190)

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**Author:** ![Maxtr0sity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maxtr0sity](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maxtr0sity)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-startup/182729/3 "2006-03-21T05:43:47Z")

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Ok, that fixes the problem, but any idea for the delays? I’ve went through settings after settings and still no avail.

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**Author:** ![teet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@teet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/teet)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-startup/182729/4 "2006-03-26T21:00:11Z")

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> [Firefox Preloader download | SourceForge.net](https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/)

i searched around and they all said this helps a ton on boot ups.  
forum i found the info at (also saw it a few other places):  
[http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=295190](http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=295190)

I’ve tried this, but I didn’t really like it. Let’s say you have FF open with 8 tabs…you could easily be using like 200 mb of RAM. Then you “close” firefox, but if you look in task manager firefox (or maybe the preloader) is still taking up 200 mb of RAM instead of the ~20-30 mb a fresh firefox window would take up. The following tweak should help quite a bit without taking a crap-load of RAM.

In windows:

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This is more like a general tips for Windows XP but here it is. You can turn on the prefetcher that available in Windows XP.

```
* Right click on Firefox icon and press properties
* Type /Prefetch:1 at the end of command in target field.
* For instance &#8220;C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe&#8221; /Prefetch:1 (Make sure you have space in between firefox.exe&#8221; and /Prefetch:1)
* Press OK to save

```

[http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/up-to-date-tips-increasing-firefox-performance.html](http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/up-to-date-tips-increasing-firefox-performance.html)

-teet