One possible way to reduce Firefox's launch time

Mar 14, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

My Firefox gets slow, particularly the launch time. Real slow. I couldn't honestly figure why, until tonight. I looked in my Downloads panel for info on a file I had downloaded earlier today. Lo and behold, there was information there from the time I initially installed Firefox on this computer; nearly a year and a half of downloads.

I clicked the Clean UP button on the Downloads window, and quit Firefox. When I restarted Firefox, it went from a 12+ bounce launch to a three-bounce launch on my iMac G5. The Mac Pro was even more surprising. It's brand new (one week this Monday), but I had imported info from my Powerbook G4. It went from five or six bounces to one.

Page loading speed seemed to be improved as well. I wish I could have tested it with a memory checker; maybe someone else could do this and see if it's improved.

[robg adds: I can't confirm this one, as my Downloads window in Firefox only ever has a couple items in it. If someone out there has a fully-loaded Downloads history and could do a bit of testing, please post your results in the comments.]

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