Firefox is the most popular web browser nowadays. It's because of it's safe. Also lots of plugins and extensions are easy get for Firefox. But the most common problem regarding Firefox user is that its start up is very slow. Its because of its default settings of update and it take more memory to load. So we can make Firefox to react much faster by disabling the updates and compressing the DLL and executable.
First trick:Disabling the Firefox update
Before complete start up Firefox checks for updates of itself, plugins and search engines. To disable this, open Firefox, then for Toos menu select options. Go to Advanced tab and uncheck all the check box and click ok. Restart Firefox.
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| Disable Firefox updates |
The basic is that UPX is a zipper software that can zip various types of files lie exe files dll files. But unlike other zip software the zipped files needed not to unzip for reading. They can execute in this zipped condition with out help of any third party software. Hence UPX reduced this file size more then 50%. So this files need much more less memory to start thus increase the speed. Moreover this is a free software.
This process is a little bit tricky. Follow the steps* Go to the address http://upx.sourceforge.net/#download and download the UPX.
* By default Firefox installation directory in windows xp is C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox, if you don't change it.
* Unzip the the zip file of UPX and on the same folder create a bat file with following code and save it with a name
pushd "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox" for %%v in (*.exe *.dll components\*.dll plugins\*.dll) do upx "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\%%v"
popd
If you don't know how to create a bat file don't worry. Open a text document past this code and save it as "name.bat", don't forget the inverted commas.
Now double click on this bat file and you see the decompressing started. To measure how much volume decompressed first see the initial size and then see the finished size.
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