Accelerate the launch of Firefox

As you know, a person gets used to almost everything, including inconvenience. Personally, I have long been annoyed by the time interval between clicking on the Firefox shortcut and the appearance of His Face, but I tolerated it. However, today the stars have become so that the solution accidentally fell into my hands.

Changing the icon of the Windows Media Player shortcut, I noticed the / prefetch key : 1 and gave myself a mental kick. After all, it was possible to guess before such a thing as Windows Prefetcher .

So, all we need is:

1. Find the shortcut that launches the application and open its properties.
2. To the path to add the key / prefetch: 1 (example: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /prefetch:1 )
3. Click OK and launch Firefox.

From now on, it will run faster.
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UPD: Still, the prefetcher briefly reassured me, because this was a placebo effect acceleration was not enough. After skewing N foreign sites through Google, I found only one adequate and really effective solution - disabling add-ons.
For example, disabling FlashGot and Live HTTP headers gave me a whole second of precious time. So for those who are concerned about this problem, I strongly recommend that you think about the list of add-ons and disable at least those that are used sporadically.

UPD2: “The OS keeps track of the / prefetch parameter : # when creating a process, but it has one (and only one) goal - to add a number to the hash. What for? WMP is a multipurpose application that can do many things. DLLs and the code that it uses will be different when playing WMV and DVD, and if the hash were the same for all possible options, then the prefetch file would be correct for only one of them. [...] In general, any program can use this option to create different prefetch files for different needs, but it doesn’t do it except WMP. ” © Ryan Myers, original