There’s nothing to collapse here. 
Btw, flexibility prevents collapses…!!! 
What about using Palemoon instead? You’re all running Windows, right? http://www.palemoon.org/
What a total plonker YoKenny, keeping up your usual standards. When you won’t use firefox you have zero practical experience of it, so your opinion is about as much use as a chocolate ashtray.
He’s so fixated on IE, he won’t ever test anything else, I guess.
My firefox was so slow that I just uninstalled it including all my data and customizations. If I ever try it it again it will be a clean start. I use Chrome now.
I have just given it a test run and it is certainly better optimised. Cold startup took a little under 5 seconds, not using a stopwatch just the second hand on my desktop clock. As some of you will know on my XP Pro system I run all my browsers, email, internet facing programs via DropMyRights (DMR). So I setup my shortcut to run Palemoon under DMR, now I expected that to add a little to the startup time, but was pleasantly surprised that the time was negligible at 5 seconds.
So considerably quicker at startup than FF4 even though this is a FF4 build optimised.
I even downloaded the Migration tool and after a little fight with my firewall protecting firefox (;D) the migration tool completed successfully.
When I ran Palemoon for the first time I was surprised to see that the tabs I had open when I closed FF4 opened in Palemoon, so the profile migration tool worked very well. I checked my Add-ons and found masses of then not compatible which were compatible in FF4. A quick check for updates resolved most/all of these other than the three that weren’t compatible in FF4 either.
All in all a very good experience of migrating a profile, which can be a nightmare with some tools.
So I will give it a test run as my default browser for a while.
Cool, sounds good. It takes them a little while to build new versions but it’s usually only a few days.
I don’t really use it often, I still prefer chrome, but I’m not stuck on any specific browser. I switch around quite a bit.
Don’t know why after my initial testing a cold start with Pale Moon is now 8-10 seconds, still faster than my installation of FF4. I don’t know if it was able to take advantage of any previously loaded firefox processes.
But it is still doing very well and I think that in normal browsing it may be a little quicker, but not something I could test. It does also have some options not in FF4.
That’s one of the reasons that I don’t use FF and it’s variants exclusively. It always takes a while to start. I assume it’s because it checks for updates and obviously starting the different add-ons. Nice browser, but not quite perfect enough for me to use constantly.
Well you don’t have to check for updates automatically, in fact it is only recently that I have enabled this. For years as a dial-up user you generally don’t allow auto update and installation for anything, avast generally being my only exception.
That’s true. Still, for some reason I just haven’t been a true fan of firefox yet. I’m still unsure as to why. It’s great and all, but it just doesn’t… feel right.
Anyway, I hope Palemoon does you and other windows users some good. Hopefully it speeds up browsing or at least startup for those who like firefox but have problems with its speed.