I can't live without Firefox Preloader myself. FF takes ages to startup, even on my AMD XP 2500+ 1GB, and half a second to start once FF preloader has started up. This is because firefox.exe shares code with all subsequently created child firefoxes (check your task manager and open several instances, you'll see it only grows the original firefox.exe, and not by as much as the first firefox.exe started out). I have applied the ol' prefetch parameter and not noticed much of a difference. This is because speedily fetching firefox.exe from disk is definitely not my problem [my HDD is insanely fast], but the code that gets loaded has a definite speedbump. The rendering code is massive and takes forever to start.
%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<the_profile>.default\Cache\ is the folder that contains the files that get messed with. Firefox doesn't respond well when the cache is deleted out from under it.
Thats interesting that it takes so long , I have an old 933 mghz machine running ME with 192 meg ram , and when I hit the Firefox button to load it up it takes less than 5 seconds and I don't have a startup icon down in the system tray either .
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Thats interesting that it takes so long , I have an old 933 mghz machine running ME with 192 meg ram , and when I hit the Firefox button to load it up it takes less than 5 seconds and I don't have a startup icon down in the system tray either .