http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Firefox: Loading into Memory en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:56:05 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/firefox-loading-into-memory#post-2523 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:31:05 +0000 michael 2523@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Superfetch is a service. Assuming you run Vista, click Start and type in services.msc and hit Enter. When the window opens, press your S key and look for Superfetch. It will either say "Started" under "Status" or nothing at all.</p> <p>--<br /> Mike </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/firefox-loading-into-memory#post-2522 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:39:00 +0000 REMINATOR 2522@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I never knew about this prefetch or superfetch things. So, how can I tell whether mine is activated or deactivated? I know mine is loaded slow too when compared to IE7.</p> <p>On another subject, I added a language into Firefox but it does not pick it up. I go to a particular website, and the text does not show in my native language. The question is why? I do not have this problem when I opened IE. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/firefox-loading-into-memory#post-2489 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:28:28 +0000 Scott 2489@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>What happens when you disable Zone Alarm?</p> <p>The other test, just for the heck of it, would be to try a new profile without addons. Close Firefox and type firefox.exe -ProfileManager in the run command. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/firefox-loading-into-memory#post-2487 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:01:54 +0000 bsriram7 2487@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Oh no. I haven't disabled Prefetch/Superfetch. In fact, I even added /Prefetch:1 to the target of the Firefox shortcut. So when you right-click the Firefox shortcut icon and modify <strong>"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"</strong> to <strong>"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /Prefetch:1</strong>, I was told it'll load faster. But there is no change. It takes up to 20 seconds now with no more than 5 extensions. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/firefox-loading-into-memory#post-2332 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:54:05 +0000 supermansghost 2332@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Have you disabled superfetch / prefetch ?</p> <p>The only reason why it would load faster on their system is because Windows has cached everything in memory...</p> <p>For what it's worth, Firefox loads slower than dirt on just about every system I've ever worked with. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/firefox-loading-into-memory#post-2328 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:48:57 +0000 bsriram7 2328@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I have a question about Firefox loading into memory. I read in a lot of forums that for the first time your start up your system, Firefox loads up slow. Maybe 10-15 seconds. But subsequently, it opens instantly like IE7 does. I've tried this on two of my friends' computers (who didn't have Firefox). I installed the same extensions as I had on mine. And true enough, except for the first time the computer starts up, Firefox loads almost as fast as Internet Explorer does.</p> <p>Here's my question. How come that doesn't work for my computer? It takes 10-15 seconds every single time I open Firefox. It cannot be because of system specifications because my computer is twice as fast as one me friend's and four times faster than the other friend. And, I tried a fresh install by removing Firefox completely and having no extensions at all. Still it takes 10 seconds to load up. </p> <p>I was wondering why there is such a big difference. The other 2 computers I've tried on are both Windows Vista. Only difference I know is that I'm running Zone Alarm and they're not. They both have AVG anti-virus as well. </p> <p>I know about Firefox Preloader. But that's not much of a help. I can just use the Minimize to Tray extension and keep Firefox open all the time. I wouldn't ask for help if I didn't know why Firefox loads instantly for my friends and takes long for me. </p>