History of Firefox takes a long time to start up Category: Troubleshooting Revision history for: English Show Helpfulness Votes Chart Compare Selected Revisions Revision Status S Editor R Comment Jul 7, 2022, 12:57:17 PM Current Chris Ilias purged pre-fx47 content Aug 25, 2017, 6:21:31 PM Approved M Michele Rodaro Optimize Windows: Added {/for} Aug 25, 2017, 8:08:26 AM Approved M AliceWyman "Don't load tabs until selected" option was removed (in Fx47?) - see discussion Aug 25, 2017, 4:20:03 AM Unreviewed Lan Correction - FX does not open just last tab, but opens all and loads the last Aug 25, 2017, 4:07:57 AM Approved M AliceWyman Optimize Windows: updated links, replaced win10 link with microsoft article Nov 26, 2016, 3:03:40 AM Approved M AliceWyman purged pre-fx45 content Dec 15, 2015, 7:23:08 AM Approved Goofy Listing steps in chronological order Nov 25, 2015, 6:57:15 PM Approved M AliceWyman Optimize Windows: linked to win10 tutorial at tenforums.com (see discussion) Nov 24, 2015, 5:28:32 AM Approved M AliceWyman Optimize Windows: applies to winxp-win7-win8 (see discussion) Aug 19, 2015, 9:17:53 PM Approved M Lan Firefox 38 update & other minor edits Aug 30, 2014, 10:01:03 AM Approved M scootergrisen anchor change Aug 24, 2014, 4:12:27 AM Approved M user669794 removed share article Feb 5, 2014, 6:10:35 AM Reviewed M Wesley Branton Added "Preloading Software" section Aug 24, 2013, 4:03:51 AM Reviewed M Patrick Ryan Scott Gramatically Corrected Error Jun 16, 2013, 1:13:12 AM Approved M Michael Verdi Windows xp, 7 & 8 specific links for optimizing windows Apr 12, 2013, 1:31:54 AM Approved Rory O’Kane fix capitalization of parenthetical within a sentence Sep 7, 2012, 8:31:14 PM Approved M scoobidiver KB2505438 now included in Win 7 SP1, fixed links, added keyword Aug 1, 2012, 2:21:10 AM Approved M Michael Verdi removed fx3.6 content, fx15 updated section about loading tabs on demand Jun 24, 2012, 3:44:33 AM Approved M Swarnava Sengupta added the Share this article template May 13, 2012, 12:03:08 AM Approved Tonnes remove first {/for} May 9, 2012, 4:42:06 AM Approved M Michael Verdi for fx13 - added note about reset firefox feature, added info that tabs on demand is default for fx13, removed content specific to fx 4 - 7 Jan 31, 2012, 9:15:43 PM Approved M AliceWyman edit to last revision to create a new "Change how windows and tabs are loaded" section after "Change the homepage" Jan 31, 2012, 1:06:34 AM Unreviewed Hasan Using the '''Don't load tabs until selected''' feature will result in loading a tab only when selected, thus speeding-up Firefox startup. Oct 13, 2011, 10:43:02 AM Approved M Michael Verdi changed intro line, simplified home page setting section, fixed typo Sep 29, 2011, 11:10:21 PM Approved M scoobidiver tabs on demand for fx8 Sep 19, 2011, 7:19:57 PM Unreviewed scoobidiver link to Firefox hangs, removed fx3.5, promote the default home page, use tab groups for session restore, optimize Windows Mar 13, 2011, 8:40:36 AM Approved Tonnes minor nits Mar 12, 2011, 2:37:00 AM Approved AliceWyman minor update to add missing "if" Mar 12, 2011, 2:05:25 AM Approved M scoobidiver renamed Windows Update section, added missing {for win} Mar 10, 2011, 11:27:33 PM Unreviewed scoobidiver Check DirectWrite API updates section added for fx4 Jan 31, 2011, 9:34:00 PM Approved M AliceWyman removing font section - see discussion at https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forums/knowledge-base-articles/704895 Jan 25, 2011, 12:57:22 AM Unreviewed scoobidiver rewriting the font section, renaming heading names, adding keywords Jan 24, 2011, 7:48:09 AM Unreviewed AliceWyman see https://support.mozilla.com/forums/knowledge-base-articles/704895 Jan 3, 2011, 2:43:54 AM Reviewed AliceWyman commenting out section for win, fx35 on removing Windows Temp and IE TIF Dec 27, 2010, 7:37:32 PM Approved M Underpass deleted nested comments. There are possibly other articles with this issue Nov 1, 2009, 7:39:28 PM Approved Underpass fix numbered list Compare Selected Revisions You are about to mark this revision as Ready for Localization. Are you sure you wish to proceed? Submit Cancel Document contributors AliceWyman Chris Ilias Underpass Tonnes Michele Rodaro Goofy Michael Verdi scoobidiver Swarnava Sengupta Hasan user669794 Rory O’Kane Lan scootergrisen