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Re:We Need Chrome No More by tenebrisalietum on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @01:34PM (#19265693)
I remember using Firefox in the pre 1.0 days.

It took slightly longer to launch than IE, but since it had tabs, I didn't care, because I wasn't opening a new instances constantly.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by Yoric on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:21PM (#19266098)
Fwiw, IE was pre-launched with Windows. That was the secret behind its (often) fast startup.

Not doing the same in Firefox was a conscious design decision by the Firefox team, which didn't want to hoard the memory when Firefox wasn't in use.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by Phrodo_00 on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:35PM (#19266226)
Yeah, seamonkey (and maybe opera) also had ways to start the browser with the os.
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