747881 - Preload some part of the application during the system sturt-up

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 276710

(Core :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

Let's make an auxiliary process launched on system start-up, which could preload some important parts of an application to enforce it's first launch.

"First launch" means that I run the application after the OS boots.

Comment 1

[Siddhartha Dugar [:sdrocking]]

Start-up improvements are planned for the next version. See Bug 692255. Loading Firefox unnecessarily into the memory is a waste of resources.

Comment 2

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

I mentioned this, because there is a huge number of users who run FF every time they start their computer. As an optional feature this would be right for them.

Comment 3

[Siddhartha Dugar [:sdrocking]]

So if this is ever implemented there needs to be an option to disable it.

Comment 4

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

Or rather disabled by default according to your Comment 1.

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Some OSes preload stuff from disk (e.g. Windows' SuperFetch). The helper app was a part of the Mozilla Suite and was intentionally removed from Firefox. Since you don't specify the app you're talking about, I'll mark this a duplicate of an old Firefox bug.