Firefox 3.5 at midnight?

A bit old, but people are still posting in it: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=313086

 

Surely if Chrome can open as fast as it does on my current HDD, why wouldn't Firefox be able to?

I don't see it as a hardware bottleneck as much as Firefox just not being as fast.

 

Question, now do I remove the tab bar if I do not use it? Just takes up space, if windows is at bottom. In 3.1 it just opened if tabs were used.

 

Go to tools > options > tabs > uncheck "always show tab bar"

 

Go to Tools>Options and click on the "Tabs" tab. From there, uncheck "always show tab bar".

EDIT: D'oh! Matt is Pro beat me to it

 

Thank you for the fast replies.

 

No problem!

 

Firefox Preloader

http://download.cnet.com/Firefox-Preloader/3000-11745_4-10906890.html

 

I haven't said it fixes the slow ff boot. But it does help for all sort of related problems with apps

they try to get firefox to boot in 50ms average in the next version btw. that would be very .. instant

currently, it's around 300ms on my ssd, 2000ms on a hdd i could try.

but one thing that helps very much: defrag the firefox files after configuring everything. i used defraggler and just defragmented the profiles folder and the programs\mozilla firefox. the result: from about half a minute boot time down to 2 sec.

 

I gave up on this utility long time ago. It can cause more harm than being helpful. With Vista, the prefetcher works just fine in its place.

And there is always the minimizing

cheers ...

 

It works pefectly for me on vista 32 and 64 ultimate. FF opens much faster using it.

The only problem I have had is when I forget to disable it before doing a FF update.