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"Start Faster" Addon For Firefox Makes Loading Time Faster By 2x

Faster FirefoxIn my quest to get the fastest possible experience with our beloved Firefox web-browser here we have another trick to get upto 2x faster start-up of Firefox on Windows OS, Firefox addon "Start Faster" does exactly what it's name suggests making use of some clever tinkering with core OS "prefetch" functionality to make the web-browser loading time faster.

Firefox Load Time Before Using "Start Faster"
Firefox Load Time Benchmark

Make Firefox Faster By Removing Unwanted Language Files

SpeedyFoxWe want our web-browsers to be as fast as possible, we have shared tips on various optimizations aiming to make Firefox faster like the CPU optimized Pale Moon Project, SpeedyFox, Firefox memory optimizers and BarTab.

Today we have another nifty little tool which optimizes your Firefox install by removing unwanted language files from Extensions making start-up faster.

Firefox Optimizer

The Pale Moon Project - Custom Build Faster Firefox Browser For Modern CPU's

Firefox Pale MoonThe biggest advantage of open-source software is that developers are free to make changes to existing code and create completely customized version of the software, benefiting from the same "Project Pale Moon" is making Firefox faster by upto 25% on Windows platform by removing unwanted code (for most users) and optimizing it to benefit from latest CPU features making full use of enhanced instruction sets of newer CPUs.

Pale Moon Firefox

To achieve it's faster Firefox build goal "Pale Moon" disables features like ActiveX and ActiveX scripting, Accessibility features, Parental controls, Javascript debugging support, crashreporter and automatic updater by design. Also, do note that since "Pale Moon Browser" is specifically optimized for current processor generation that is 7th or later generation CPU with SSE2 support the browser will not run or will have problems on older hardware configurations.

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