Firefox/Swiftfox startup time

[Fedoration]

Hello,

I am an avid firefox/swiftfox fan - the rendering is great and there are some really cool themes and extensions. My only gripe with it is the startup time. I have spent hours trawling through various forums and howtos trying to figure out how I can make swiftfox load in less than 10 seconds (that is initialize the program). The time taken to start up does not decrease with the number of times I launch it. I have tried prelinking - no difference. I installed preload (have had it on for a number of hours now and I have restarted the browser many times) - no difference either. I have disabled ipv6 and applied all the rendering tweaks so the rendering works very well - it's just the startup. I know windows has the firefox preloader and I think it has a system tray extension as well, but does linux have something, anything that will make this beautiful application start faster?

[Fedoration]

Don't like the rendering too much(this page is terrible - I am writing in a text box about 1.5cm wide), but opera sure is fast. It opens instantaneously if I leave it in the kicker tray and takes 4-5 seconds ion a cold start. The rendering speed isn't bad either, but the rendering quality is definitely poor compared to firefox.

[Fedoration]

Nice. If you are tired of having slow firefox startup, check this (http://mozillaqs.sourceforge.net/) out. Not quite as fast as opera at starting up, but it's a price I'm willing to pay for the quality of the rendering in firefox as opposed to opera and my nice firefox extensions. I think opera is very good with it's plugins (it takes my firefox ones straight off), but it's extensions could be added to. Every man and his dog now has a firefox extension.

[TheSpeedoBeast]

Dear lord, are you schizophrenic, or did you just answer your own question. But seriously, I am just confused.

Edit: Just saw the "solved" title. Don't know if it was just changed or what, but never freakin' mind!

[Fedoration]

I just kept looking for a solution. Probably should have been working, but it was annoying me very much. I had to use alien to convert it to a deb for ubuntu and the feature allowing startup with kde doesn't work. I added a startup script and a shutdown script to fix that (on my machine). In the long term, though, I think I will shrink my 80GB windows partition and give some over to kubuntu. I like the idea of mounting firefox and abiword to RAM.