265347 - Firefox starts up too slowly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 254627

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, enhancement)

Description

[Christopher Lee]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

It takes Firefox too long to start up

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

reporter: did you experience a firefox crash or a system crash while firefox was
running?  or are you just talking about normal startup times?  i'm asking
because after a crash, firefox does some costly pruning of the disk cache to
ensure system integrity.  that can take a very long time making it seem like
firefox isn't starting up.

Comment 2

[Jesper Hertel]

I also have problems with long startup times with Firefox 0.9.3 and 1.0PR, on
two computers. My home computer Celeron 1,2 MHz 768 MB (Firefox 0.9.3) and work
computer Pentium IV 2,6 GHz 1 GB (Firefox 1.0PR). On my home computer, with 7
Firefox windows open, it takes 5 to 6 seconds for a new Firefox window to
appear. At my work it also takes several seconds. 

It clearly takes a longer time per window, the more Firefox windows are already
open. If only one window is open, a new window opens in about 2 seconds on my
home computer.

Installed Firefox extensions at my home computer: DOM Inspector 1.0, SwitchProxy
Tool 1.3, Googlebar 0.9.0.28, Download Manager Tweak 0.5.2, ieview 0.83.

I am using Windows XP Professional fully updated (SP2) (home), Windows 2000
fully updated (work).

Comment 3

[Christopher Lee]

(In reply to comment #1)
> reporter: did you experience a firefox crash or a system crash while firefox was
> running?  or are you just talking about normal startup times?  i'm asking
> because after a crash, firefox does some costly pruning of the disk cache to
> ensure system integrity.  that can take a very long time making it seem like
> firefox isn't starting up.

normal startup times

Comment 4

[Robin Monks]

Duping to Bug 254627 because of very similar content/comments.

Reporter, if you feels this was done in error, please REOPEN.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254627 ***