503012 - very long time waiting on startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 501605

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Always when I open Firefox for the first time after starting up Windows - I wait at least one minute till I see finally the browser window. Then everything goes normally and fine. Even when I close firefox and open it once again - it opens with no waiting time.
Only when I start my computer and open firefox for the first time I have to wait and wait.
At work and at home. And my friend was asking me if there is a problem with his computer because he has to wait now with firefox.
So it's not just a single computer configuration problem or something...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

This could be a duplicate of bug 501605. To rule out profile corruptions, first retest with a new profile: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile

If the problem is also present after creating a new profile and you want to help, please test the tryserver builds posted in bug 501605.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

You can also clean the directories mentioned in bug 501605 comment 30. You probably have a huge number of files in your temp directories and in the history & cache of Internet Explorer.

Comment 3

[Galen Swint]

Ran across a blog post that indicates others have this problem as well:

http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2009/07/09/the-firefox-3-5-fiasco.aspx