Dubbed his "hackiest hack ever," the same Mozilla developer who brought us the the 20-line Firefox start-up speed hack has now released an add-on that works even better!Start Faster, which only works on Windows Vista and 7 at the moment, installs a service that speeds up the loading of Firefox's gorillaesque DLL libaries. The service runs with Administrator privileges, which allows Firefox to bypass the Windows prefetcher, improving start-up time by up to 100%. The one caveat is that you must launch Firefox using the new "Faster Firefox" shortcut that will be dumped on your desktop after installing the add-on.
If you want empirical evidence of the start-up speed-up, be sure to grab the About Startup add-on, which will show you your startup time. Use your normal Firefox shortcut to text it without Start Faster, and then use the Faster Firefox shortcut to compare.
Incidentally, if you don't like the idea of running an add-on that requires Administrator access, feel free to check through the source. We're fairly certain the add-on is safe, though.
Mozilla has toyed with the idea of using Windows services since 2009. They provide a great way of performing administrative tasks, such as updating Firefox in the background or defragmenting Firefox's databases. Start Faster is a proof of concept add-on that will hopefully be baked into a future version of Firefox.
Halve your Firefox start-up time with the hackiest hack ever originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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