In the last 6 weeks I’ve got >1500 visitors to my homepage by google while they were searching for sth. similar to “firefox 2.0 preloader”. They all read my article about how to disable the Session-Restorer, so that there won’t be any annoying dialogs asking for restarting the last session after each System Shutdown. Since that I’m already switch 100% to Ubunu Linux, so I can’t use the preloader anymore, which is by myself very sad, because I have to wait longer for a new Firefox-Window even if switch to a faster CPU(P4 Celeron 2,2 -> Core 2 Duo T7600). My first idea was to pack it with UPX, but that would still be a hack like my way to disable the annoying Session-Restore-dialogue. So I thought about writing a new Preloader which should work on all Firefox compatibe OS. My favorite was to start Firefox with the command “firefox -preload”, ut figuring out, where to add new commandline arguments was nearly impossible, so that need help by some better XULRunner/Firefox-Developers(as long as I have to wait for the help, I’m using MinimizeToTray, but it’s not really that what I want).
My idea for a new Firefox Preloader:
- started by “firefox -preload”
- creates Icon in SysTray and the equals on the other OS
- has same Options as “old” Preloader
By this I want to mention that the “old” preloader is a hack too because it opens just a window and tries to hide this which does not always work.
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