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0 pointstenebrisalietum7y ago0 comments

I remember using Firefox in the pre 1.0 days.

It took slightly longer to launch than IE, but since it had tabs, I didn't care, because I wasn't opening a new instances constantly.

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Yoric7y ago

Fwiw, IE was pre-launched with Windows. That was the secret behind its (often) fast startup.

Not doing the same in Firefox was a conscious design decision by the Firefox team, which didn't want to hoard the memory when Firefox wasn't in use.

Yeah, seamonkey (and maybe opera) also had ways to start the browser with the os.

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0 pointstenebrisalietum7y ago0 comments

I remember using Firefox in the pre 1.0 days.

It took slightly longer to launch than IE, but since it had tabs, I didn't care, because I wasn't opening a new instances constantly.

Yoric7y ago

Fwiw, IE was pre-launched with Windows. That was the secret behind its (often) fast startup.

Not doing the same in Firefox was a conscious design decision by the Firefox team, which didn't want to hoard the memory when Firefox wasn't in use.

Yeah, seamonkey (and maybe opera) also had ways to start the browser with the os.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse