Comments on: Firefox 3.5.1 due this week to fix security and slow startup bugs

By: Captain Canuck

Captain Canuck — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:07:51 +0000

Unbelievable that people would change browsers because of a one-liner.

By: Annoyed

Annoyed — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:21:26 +0000

Ever since I installed Firefox 3.6, I receive that damned annoying message “well this is embarrassing”. It won’t open new links either – only if I choose “open in another tab”.

It’s so annoying that now I’m changing to Opera.

By: musicman

musicman — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:41:28 +0000

I notice that 3.5.2 starts up slow the first time, but subsequent starts are much faster. Does anyone else have the problem with it always coming up (first time) asking “well, this is embarrassing” and asks to restore sessions, even when previous sessions are stopped clean.

By: barnfish

barnfish — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:28:31 +0000

Firefox 3.5.2 still very slow to start up. Firefox 3.0 and IE8 much faster to load.

By: Boxx

Boxx — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:31:19 +0000

Takes 20-60 sec. to start up.

Ver 3.5.2
OS : Windows XP Pro, SP3 and all fixes.
AV + AntiMalware : eTrust 8, incl. pest patrol.
MS Windows Defender, latest signatures.

IE8 starts right away.

By: Ash

Ash — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:59:34 +0000

still slow… error with facebook…

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:19:39 +0000

BTW someone should spell-check the code on this page: “submiting” ?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:18:35 +0000

3.5.2 is still slow slow slow to startup.

Is there an option to prevent update checks at start-up but allow them as an idle process? Firefox seems to do both, but I can’t see how to control them separately.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:22:22 +0000

Why the blazes does it scan the temp folder? The temp folder should be empty when not in use by a setup program or some such. Although on a typical PC the temp folder can easily have a hojillion files in it because it is hidden from the users, many programs don’t clean up after themselves, and users don’t realize there is a problem until their hard drive literally fills up.

By: emonweb

emonweb — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:47:54 +0000

loading the basic interface (minimum required) first and then load others when an associate action request is occur or loading sequentially rather loading everything first time could be helpful for a faster start-up.

like loading all 12 tabs from my last save could be change to a popup window or menu, with options to choose from, for a new load is better. there could be option to load all.

By: Captain Canuck

Captain Canuck — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:53:00 +0000

Will the sqlite3 VACUUM method of flushing *.sqlite files during/after each firefox update be implemented soon?
maybe in 3.5.2?

By: tom

tom — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:53:30 +0000

thank god some good news 3.5 is really fast browser but really buggy

By: Eric Ferreira

Eric Ferreira — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:18:52 +0000

Good info, thanks.