Firefox _Very_ Slow to Start

I've been using my new Vista box (64-bit Home Premium) for a few months now
and in general I'm OK with it. But something strange has just started to
happen. If I click on my Firefox icon, the browser opens normally. For
any URL I type in, (if the server is available, of course...), Firefox
responds as quickly as the 'net allows. But when I try to start Firefox by
clicking on a link in a different place, like a URL imbedded in an email or
off a widget, there is about a 30 second delay before the browser comes up.

Has anyone else seen this, or have any idea what might be causing it?

TIA...

Alan Holbrook wrote:
> I've been using my new Vista box (64-bit Home Premium) for a few months now
> and in general I'm OK with it. But something strange has just started to
> happen. If I click on my Firefox icon, the browser opens normally. For
> any URL I type in, (if the server is available, of course...), Firefox
> responds as quickly as the 'net allows. But when I try to start Firefox by
> clicking on a link in a different place, like a URL imbedded in an email or
> off a widget, there is about a 30 second delay before the browser comes up.
>
> Has anyone else seen this, or have any idea what might be causing it?
>
> TIA...


Well yes and no, how does it compare if you set IE as default browser.

I just set FF to default and the startup time (Google is the page it
open to just on it's own) is about the same.


IE opens a window at the same speed but takes seconds longer to get the
Google page.

IE say 7 seconds to get page

FF say 5 seconds to get page

They remain about equal (2 seconds different) from a URL in the sidebar.

If your browser, of whatever ilk, is closed and you click any url link in
another application, then there is bound to be a delay, at least I've always
experienced such in any version of Win.
Generally if the browser is open, the link should be virtually instantaneous

"Alan Holbrook" <> wrote in message
news:Xns9C236085FD3C6cartaphiluscharterne@69.16.18 5.247...
> I've been using my new Vista box (64-bit Home Premium) for a few months
> now
> and in general I'm OK with it. But something strange has just started to
> happen. If I click on my Firefox icon, the browser opens normally. For
> any URL I type in, (if the server is available, of course...), Firefox
> responds as quickly as the 'net allows. But when I try to start Firefox
> by
> clicking on a link in a different place, like a URL imbedded in an email
> or
> off a widget, there is about a 30 second delay before the browser comes
> up.
>
> Has anyone else seen this, or have any idea what might be causing it?
>
> TIA...

On 07 Jun 2009, Alan Holbrook <> wrote in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general:

> I've been using my new Vista box (64-bit Home Premium) for a few
> months now and in general I'm OK with it. But something strange
> has just started to happen. If I click on my Firefox icon, the
> browser opens normally. For any URL I type in, (if the server is
> available, of course...), Firefox responds as quickly as the 'net
> allows. But when I try to start Firefox by clicking on a link in
> a different place, like a URL imbedded in an email or off a
> widget, there is about a 30 second delay before the browser comes
> up.

I suspect either a Firefox plugin or something to do with one of those
virus/spyware/firewall programs that check out URLs before displaying
them to you. I would try systematically disabling all that stuff to try
to narrow the problem down.