Application of the day
Firefox, Mozilla, browser
For those of you who like to use the Mozilla Firefox browser under Windows: Have you ever noticed how it takes Firefox a lot longer to load than, say, Internet Explorer(IE). Apparently there are large portions of IE that load during the booting of Windows (this seems especially true for IE version 7), and that's one reason IE loads faster.
Firefox users now have the ability to pre-load critical parts of the Firefox browser by utilizing the Firefox Preloader
Size of the installer is approx 870 Kb, so it won't take all night to download.
This free, open-source windows application loads as a Windows Service (in the tray) and effectively halves the initial load time for the Firefox browser and provides a near-instantaneous load for subsequent sessions. On my 2 mHtz P4 laptop, about 4 years old, the initial load time is about 6 seconds, which is barely tolerable. After installing the preloader, it was 2 or 3 seconds. There is no configuration for the loader and it does not appear to draw on your memory or processor cycle resources, so I tolerate it well sitting in the Windows tray.
This little nifty has been around since February 2005, I can't believe I missed it! Note that there are other solutions for firefox loading slowing, and some involve the compression of the run time code. I've used them as well, but this seems to work even better.
Mike
For those of you who like to use the Mozilla Firefox browser under Windows: Have you ever noticed how it takes Firefox a lot longer to load than, say, Internet Explorer(IE). Apparently there are large portions of IE that load during the booting of Windows (this seems especially true for IE version 7), and that's one reason IE loads faster.
Firefox users now have the ability to pre-load critical parts of the Firefox browser by utilizing the Firefox Preloader
Size of the installer is approx 870 Kb, so it won't take all night to download.
This free, open-source windows application loads as a Windows Service (in the tray) and effectively halves the initial load time for the Firefox browser and provides a near-instantaneous load for subsequent sessions. On my 2 mHtz P4 laptop, about 4 years old, the initial load time is about 6 seconds, which is barely tolerable. After installing the preloader, it was 2 or 3 seconds. There is no configuration for the loader and it does not appear to draw on your memory or processor cycle resources, so I tolerate it well sitting in the Windows tray.
This little nifty has been around since February 2005, I can't believe I missed it! Note that there are other solutions for firefox loading slowing, and some involve the compression of the run time code. I've used them as well, but this seems to work even better.
Mike
posted by Michael Moore @ 12:59 PM
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