Given the fact Firefox is getting lot of heat from Chrome, it’s time Firefox fixes one of the most nagging issue – Reboot Time. For most of the times, Chrome comes up in 1-2 seconds on my PCs. As compared to that Firefox can take 30-60 seconds.
Without going into the internals of product, one area where Firefox definitely wastes time is updating extensions when the browser is rebooted. I understand the need for newer features, but most of the dot releases of extensions dont offer quantum jump in feature-set to justify the slow bootup time.
Firefox should instead give the extension update control to users as to when they want their extensions to be updated-
- When browser is starting up(Basic Users – Default)
- When browser is in use for 10 mins(Advanced Users)
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