Firefox in system tray and fast start

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Firefox in system tray and fast start

Postby AstorBG » Feb 8th, '17, 13:24

Hi magicians,
Is there any app that can keep my Firefox loaded in the system tray whan I close it or in RAM for that matter?
I have planty of RAM and I would like my browser to start fast ... not to be loaded any time from zero when I click on the icon.
Can somehow this thing be preloaded or smthn in the memory?
I serached in the forum and in repos and in the addons but i couldnt find anything.
I remember there was such a thing in Netrunner before but not sure 100%.

Thanks,

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Re: Firefox in system tray and fast start

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 8th, '17, 20:38

Yes there is something like that, take a look at the previous thread: viewtopic.php?f=41&t=3078 or at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pr ... ync-daemon


Although you might want to consider a different browser, and/or an SSD.

Because I still don't get the use case for that. When I e.g. boot up, and then start chrome it takes 4 seconds, with 30 - 50 tabs open, with nearly 20 chrome extensions activated. And then I just leave it running.
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Re: Firefox in system tray and fast start

Postby AstorBG » Feb 9th, '17, 17:49

Thanks Dok,
fisrt option didnt start the ff faster but rather was loading the pages very fast. In my case this option also freezed my ff and I reverted back and went for the second option that u suggested i.e. profile sync daemon. So far I am not impressed but still i can see slight improvement + they say it spares the ssd. So I will stick with it for now.
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