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cryptoz on July 6, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released

Maybe it's just faster because none of your extensions are running? The ones you listed sound like they probably use lots of CPU time and memory, and if they are disabled I'm sure FF runs much faster / lighter.

natmaster on July 7, 2010 [–]

I can't comment on how much the extensions might have affected things, but startup time was significantly improved: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Sprints/Startup_Time_Improv...

seunosewa on July 7, 2010 | [–]

Same reason.

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