Thread: Why does Firefox take a long time to load?

Any tips to start FF faster. It takes nearly a minute to load, especially the first time.

how many plugins do you have enabled ?

Not too many.

a) AdBlock
b) Flashblock
c) Cache Viewer
d) FlashGot

Have you tried un-install and reinstall?

thats way too long. once in a while it would do good to uninstall FF completely, remove all the files and re-install it.

I telling this coz, i read somewhere,that FF creates temp files which make it slow over a period of time

as an alternative, u can try portable FF from here and see if it makes a difference, before reinstalling.

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives

There is an application called Firefox Preloader that can start Firefox in a second. But it's a little unstable.

thanks for the tip archer, rep+

Archer Rocks...

-F

repping.

Thanks friends. Will try all the options starting with re-install.

@F, don't say 'repping' :lol: Sounds kinky.

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OK.

Before trying out a complete reinstall, I thought I would try to disable the add-on's one by one and check.

So I disabled FlashGot first. And viola! After the very first instance it worked.

(I guess sometimes Murphy's laws don't hold true. )

Now I have completely installed FlashGot and FF loads in 5-10 seconds. It is still slower than IE but acceptable. I read at many places that FF is always a little slower to load because of the add-on's.

i think if you have multiple tabs saved in the last session then it might take time to load..and have you googled to speed up ff tutorial...it really worked for me and since then i always have some 10 to 12 tabs saved in every session....they load at lighting speed every time i launch ff

off topic- guessing by your avatar you are either very elder saggy Pinocchio or a ugly twin brother of Cleopatra

Originally Posted by just4kix

Thanks friends. Will try all the options starting with re-install.

@F, don't say 'repping' :lol: Sounds kinky.

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OK.

Before trying out a complete reinstall, I thought I would try to disable the add-on's one by one and check.

So I disabled FlashGot first. And viola! After the very first instance it worked.

(I guess sometimes Murphy's laws don't hold true. )

Now I have completely installed FlashGot and FF loads in 5-10 seconds. It is still slower than IE but acceptable. I read at many places that FF is always a little slower to load because of the add-on's.

Did you try the portable version, i suggested or your happy with your current loading speed ?

Not exctly happy. But I will live.

First of all they have not increased the cold start significantly but it is way better than IE8 & previous versions. As its cold start was good already major thrust was not on increasing it.

What they have increased is browsing speeds , scripting speeds & added a whole plethora of features.You can see that coldstart will be increased in 3.6 hopefully.

To know whether your browser is really slow than its average ,benchmark it here Peacekeeper - The Browser Benchmark from Futuremark Corporation

This test will consume much CPU & memory(noy alwaysin case of memory). You are advise to close all of your windows & downloads to get accurate results. Anything around 2/3rd of average is good.

They don't check cold start but you can get idea whether your browser is slow than speed which it should provide.

This guy claim that his method increase the speed of ff & reduce memory consumption. But it is valid only for windows platform ( so I can't check it).
http://stayupdate.com/tips-tricks/in...ge-20-tips/567

Originally Posted by Luke Skywalker

First of all they have not increased the cold start significantly but it is way better than IE8 & previous versions. As its cold start was good already major thrust was not on increasing it.

What they have increased is browsing speeds , scripting speeds & added a whole plethora of features.You can see that coldstart will be increased in 3.6 hopefully.

To know whether your browser is really slow than its average ,benchmark it here Peacekeeper - The Browser Benchmark from Futuremark Corporation

This test will consume much CPU & memory(noy alwaysin case of memory). You are advise to close all of your windows & downloads to get accurate results. Anything around 2/3rd of average is good.

They don't check cold start but you can get idea whether your browser is slow than speed which it should provide.

This guy claim that his method increase the speed of ff & reduce memory consumption. But it is valid only for windows platform ( so I can't check it).
Increase Firefox Speed and Decrease Firefox Memory Usage +20 Tips | StayUpdate.com - Want to stay up to date?

Easy tiger. I am not looking for a war of the browsers thread.

All I am saying is what I am observing. I am still on IE7 - so I cannot compare with IE8. I use IE7 as well as FF 3.5.

Now where have I started the wars of browser? Some people will never learn to understand the facts.

No browser can claim it is fastest in all tests. What they can claim is that they are faster in certain test. I have given you link to increase the speed of your browser & benchmark it. Is it fighting war or helping others?

These arguments could easily lead to such "flame" wars.

All I am looking is a solution to the one problem which I have. "Which broswer is fastest?" is an entirely different topic.

I have not stated which browser is fastest in all respect.

All I have done is given link to benchmark test to those who might be in need to check whether there browser is functioning as expected. And another link to solve if it not meet expectations.

PS: 70% people use IE. Its very important for web developers. Even I have install IE 7 in linux ( but I am not a web developer).

The slow loading was a bug with FF 3.5. Now update it to 3.5.1

Thanks for enlightenment

how to reload fast in FF

This trick is especially helpful for those who are on a slower connection.
As you know firefox has a cool feature of "recently closed tabs"
and now "recently closed window" with v3.5 onwards. But a very few know that
we can use it reload faster a web page if it gets stuck.
What you have to do is to close the tab and press ctrl+shift+t (shortcut).

This way the page does not load again what it had already loaded (not always).
When you press 'reload' it reloads everything and the page might get stuck again.

no matter the plugins firefox starts almost immediately!

Originally Posted by relton

no matter the plugins firefox starts almost immediately!

i'm sure kix will envy you

Originally Posted by newprouser

i'm sure kix will envy you

well its the same with me as well i never had to switch to any other browser since i am using FF and i really love it

Firefox takes little more time to start for me also
@Archer thanks for link

Firefox 3.5 & 3.5.1 loads in 4-5 seconds for me.

Originally Posted by newprouser

thanks for the tip archer, rep+

Originally Posted by farce

Archer Rocks...

-F

repping.

Originally Posted by rupu1983

Firefox takes little more time to start for me also
@Archer thanks for link

Thanks for the repo.