241798 - Mozilla FireFox 0.8 slow to load

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[dipesh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

FireFox is too slow compared to IE to start. On Pentium 1.5 also you have to
wait for 5-10 seconds for the browser to load.

In Microsoft Office XP version there was a entry in Startup folder called
"Microsoft Office Fast Start" which would load required DLL files at boot time
so starting Word, Excel would not feel as if it takes time.

Same should be done for FireFox that required DLL to be loaded in memory at boot
time, so that starting FireFox should not take any time.

Also another option can be added as in Yahoo! Messenger which can close main
window but runs in system tray, likewise if FireFox is closed than also remain
in system tray so next start would be faster.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
FireFox should start immediately ready for url entry.

Expected Results:  
It takes 5-10 seconds to load firefox.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

quicklaunch was removed a long time ago, I don't even feel like finding the
original to dupe this against, so WONTFIX

startup time is important, but we're not going to reimplement quicklaunch.