How to make Firefox Load FAST like Internet Explorer

Have you ever noticed how fast Internet Explorer loads compared to the Firefox? Although Firefox’s great with access to configuration as described in “Improve & Optimize Firefox“, its loading time can be annoying.

Regardless of how fast your computer is, Firefox would load up slower than Internet Explorer, and it is because Window XP pre-loads IE in its startup. Firefox developers claim that they’ve decided not to do the same, however there is a way for us to fix this up to let it load as fast as IE

1. Put a Firefox shortcut in your Start Menu if you don’t already have one.
2. As the picture shown left, look for Target section, it would probably say something similar to “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe“
3. At the very end of that, simply add “/Prefetch:1” (<– Without the Quotation Marks)
4. So it would probably look like “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” /Prefetch:1

Tada! Now, Firefox would load up as fast as Internet Explorer, no need to be patient about its loading time anymore =)
Credit goes to Trap17.com

Comments

Comment by Master Cheif on February 1, 2008 @ 11:05 pm

hmm i found that explorer seems to be a bit laggier somewhat

Comment by sJ_Dan on February 2, 2008 @ 12:45 am

same with me as well

Comment by Bambo on February 2, 2008 @ 10:11 am

Dude, this is rubbish. Why dont you check what you copy and paste/post? http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000621.html

Comment by sJ_Dan on February 2, 2008 @ 6:24 pm

Bambo, I would like to clarify this out. I did get this source from a site, so I gave them the credit, however, it is not from the site you’ve given me, I’ve gotten it from trap17.com as the credit above, and I would never ever simply copy/paste any articles that I post up. Please understand that there are tons of sites out there, so it may have seemed like I’ve done what you said, but please check, I’ve put this up because I found it useful for myself, and I just wanted to share with everyone. I hope you understand. -sJ_Dan

Comment by kevin on February 2, 2008 @ 9:05 pm

hmm handled very maturely

Comment by sJ_Dan on February 2, 2008 @ 9:59 pm

kevin, welcome to mymyTech. I hate to simply take other’s hard work like that as I would hate it vice versa, and hopefully explained it thoroughly for Bambo. But a note for myself, I must not forget to give credits!

Comment by Dunn on February 4, 2008 @ 2:12 am

I don’t know about the rest of you but somehow I found Firefox is much faster than IE since first I downloaded it..

Comment by sJ_Dan on February 4, 2008 @ 2:25 am

Dunn, I agree as well. Internet Explorer takes way too much physical memory compared to Firefox

Comment by humeyboy on March 7, 2008 @ 2:05 am

[Deleted] Please refrain from any harsh language -sJ_Dan

Comment by Mayur on April 12, 2008 @ 9:25 am

Hey thanks, useful tip !

Comment by sJ_Dan on April 12, 2008 @ 2:53 pm

Mayur, sure thing

Comment by subrata roy on May 15, 2008 @ 5:39 am

I think there should have been a list of sources at the end of the topic. If you do so, no one can say anything. Any way thank you.

Comment by sJ_Dan on May 15, 2008 @ 2:25 pm

subrata roy, yes I’ve put a single source, the only site, not multiple. Are we really here to argue about such thing? Oh by the way, Mozilla Firefox Beta 3 takes less memory!

Comment by Jordan on June 21, 2008 @ 6:48 pm

Well, I Got A Better Way Of Speeding The Up Both But It Will Appear That Internet Explorer Will be The Fastest (This Rquires Download :() Your Gonna Need To Download This Optimizer. 1. go to software.ws 2. click on “SC Net Speeder Lite” On The Navigation. 3. Download It 4. Set It Up! 5. Just Set Your Settings. 6. Restart Your Computer. 7. WAHHLA BOOM! It’s Soo Fast! I Recommend The Recommended But Do Some Experiment’s The More Numbers You Put In The More SPeed It Will Be! Depending If It’s A Memory Sender Or Packet Sender Data. I Hope I Helped! Please Rep+ If I Helped!

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