{"id":2105,"date":"2011-06-20T02:49:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T00:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2011-06-20T02:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T00:49:46","slug":"faster-firefox-cold-startup-now-in-nightlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=2105","title":{"rendered":"Faster Firefox cold startup, now in nightlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bug627591.bugzilla.mozilla.org\/attachment.cgi?id=530154\">20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows up to 2x as fast<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/bug632404.bugzilla.mozilla.org\/attachment.cgi?id=510621\">stupid one-liner that does the same on Linux<\/a> both grew into a full fledged <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=632404\">preloading solution<\/a> working on all our supported platforms. This involved major changes to how we <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=552864\">initialize Firefox<\/a>, and a few <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=658995\">glitches with our leak detector<\/a>, but this time it should stay for good (it had been backed out twice already).<\/p>\n<p>Users shouldn't notice any change until after they reboot after upgrading to the latest nightly. It is possible to watch how things evolve with the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/addon\/about-startup\">about:startup extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These cold startup improvements will be available in Firefox 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows up to 2x as fast and the stupid one-liner that does the same on Linux both grew into a full fledged preloading solution working on all our supported platforms. This involved major changes to how we initialize Firefox, and a few glitches with our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planet-mozilla","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}