20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows 2x as fast

Re:20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows ... by code_duck on Sunday January 23, 2011 @04:13AM (#2132099)

FF4 has significantly improved performance, at least. It's much more on par with Chrome and Safari than 3.x.

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Re:20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows ... by eiji on Sunday January 23, 2011 @12:11PM (#2132783)

I think FF needs a way to benchmark extensions.

It's true, without SSD, FF3.X cold-start is not what it should be. However, many users do face an interesting dilema. They complain about slow startup time, and at the same time, call themselfs power-users with 10+ extensions, which makes it hard to switch browsers.

The recent Skype-disaster highlighted the problem of missing extension-benchmarks for the public. I don't know how that could be done, but besides the 5-star ratings, there could be a mozilla-provided performance indicator.

FF4 does improve performance, but power-users will still use the same extensions.

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Re:20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows ... by mbrubeck on Sunday January 23, 2011 @12:14PM (#2132793)

We're working on benchmarking extensions' effect on startup time:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623950

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