Can it be loaded as a service on bootup, is there some switches that could be used to speed up the firefox load times on first run.

Any advice would be helpful.

I'm using Speedyfox. Its working very well for me.

I hope This helps. I didn't try them my self so i can't tell if it will really boost firefox or not.

Also do not forget that Firefox is just one version of the Mozilla browsers. There are other distros out there that may be better for you too.

Fasterfox is worth looking at, too.

Edited March 16, 201115 yr by Glenn9999

creata user.js file and add all this. Does not contain everything from the 8 tweaks link.

drop in profile folder

in win 7 that will be C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxl.default

I am running on Firefox 4 RC

user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 500000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 250000);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);

Edited March 16, 201115 yr by maxXPsoft

Thanks for sharing this optimization file, maxXPsoft ! It is working great on my Newage-os guys's customized Firefox 3.6.10 edition.

Can it be loaded as a service on bootup, is there some switches that could be used to speed up the firefox load times on first run.

check this addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/startupservice/