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In recent days, an increasing number of users have been complaining of slow start up times for Firefox 3.5, while others don't have a problem. It now appears that the cause has been found and the developers are working on a solution.

On some systems, it takes thirty seconds or more to display the Firefox window. Frans Bouma examined the system and found that, at start up, Firefox initialises the random number generators of the Network Security Services. It does this by reading files from some "random" sources. On Windows, this includes the Internet Explorer cache and the Windows folder for temporary files. As both can often contain a large number of files, this process can actually take a long time.

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I saw this on a highly saturated laptop, and it taook more than 1min to open Firefox.

I thought it sucked... but maybe deleting some shit it works ok.

Lame error if they need to check every temp/cache file just to generate a stupid random number that can be generated with a million ways.

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On my PC it's working fine... but actually I'm not using it a lot in these days, I'm using Google Chrome.

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I actually noticed this problem on my laptop, pretty stupid they didn't notice this before...

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At last someone else who has the same problem as me. Mine takes(cold boot) about 20 seconds to start on 2.2 Core 2 Duo, vista, 3gb ram!. I heard it takes 2 seconds for others. :lol:

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It took around 10-15 seconds on my laptop, which I did consider a long time, especially when it's Firefox :lol:

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