Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks
Speed up load time

Firefox is slow to load initially on Windows XP. You can speed this up a bit by using XP's built in prefetcher. Simply right-click on the Firefox icon you use to start the browser. Add the text /Prefetch:1 to the end of the line in the target field.

The whole line should look something like the following:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1

What exactly does this do?

Does it load FireFox on startup??

EatChex89 wrote:

What exactly does this do? Does it load FireFox on startup??

No, what it does is speed up the startup of Firefox when you click on the Firefox icon. It basically makes it so that it's "ready to go." Prefetch basically keeps apps "on hold" so they load faster.

If you want, you can have Firefox start at startup, of course. But that's not what this is for.

Actually yes.. while it does not launch the application at sartup , the necessary files a re loaded at boot time (there are numerous tweaks outhtere forthe prefetcher to optimize your boot time as well )

Neuromancer wrote:

Actually yes.. while it does not launch the application at sartup , the necessary files a re loaded at boot time (there are numerous tweaks outhtere forthe prefetcher to optimize your boot time as well )

Oh, I interpreted "load Firefox on startup" to mean "launch." Either way, what I said applies.

phileysmiley wrote:

Neuromancer wrote: Actually yes.. while it does not launch the application at sartup , the necessary files a re loaded at boot time (there are numerous tweaks outhtere forthe prefetcher to optimize your boot time as well ) Oh, I interpreted "load Firefox on startup" to mean "launch." Either way, what I said applies.

You are correct the program does not launch at startup.. .just some necessary pre-loading files

There is also a nifty little app called Fire Tune that will dramatically speed up all aspects of FF. You can find it here (it works great)

http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56883