Tip#3: How to make Internet Explorer startup faster(under 1 sec!)

[motorcycleguy]

I find I can start it way way under 1 second!

Find a shortcut you are using right click and click Properties. Then type: -nohome
at the end of Target area after ...iexplorer" . Please notice the space iexplorer" -nohome... click YES and off you go

Here's an example picture for those who don't get it


enjoy

[LNahid2000]

ah, thats almost the same as the "use blank" option. mine starts up in a second anyway and i like to see the news when i launch my browser. good tip for those on dialup though. i was on dialup the other day cause my dsl wasn't working and that was horrible.

[Nyte]

Mine starts up in a second as well already.

[deep]

A better tip is to tell people how to prevent it from starting up at all!

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

or

http://www.opera.com/

[willy]

I think 'Use Blank' as home page should achieve the same result.

[ScreamingJesus]

Use blank doesn't acheive the same speed, because it still has to load the blank homepage.(notice in the bar it says about:blank, that means it had to load that like any other url thingy). But with this, it doesn't load any homepage at all, so it is faster then using about:blank. When I switched, I actually did notice a difference between about:blank and -nohome.

[mlc2000]

So firefox loads faster? Or are u just an IE-Hater?

A better tip is to tell people how to prevent it from starting up at all!

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

or

http://www.opera.com/

[Cafe_333]

Use blank doesn't acheive the same speed, because it still has to load the blank homepage.(notice in the bar it says about:blank, that means it had to load that like any other url thingy). But with this, it doesn't load any homepage at all, so it is faster then using about:blank. When I switched, I actually did notice a difference between about:blank and -nohome.

about:blank is a homepage?????
a blank homepage means it doesn't load any page period.

[gilboman]

mine loads in under a sec already?

[ronny1980]

I always have my homepage as cnn.com

and still mine opens up under 1 sec.

Even if it doesnt open up in 1 sec it doesnt necessarily have anything to do with IE itself.

If you have multiple programs runnning like games/bittorent obviously IE will take alil bit longer to open up.

[Absolute]

My home page is a local file with links to all the sites I visit, < 1 sec to load.

Now, how do we make FF faster?

[ShadowVlican]

So firefox loads faster? Or are u just an IE-Hater?

my customized firefox doesn't load faster than IE

none the less, i still use firefox

[Canucklehead]

Firefox doesn't load up any faster but it also doesn't download any crap faster either.

Firefox has a lot of really cool features (check under "extensions") and I feel that it is more secure than IE. It give me great control over what is transmitted from my computer to the site that I am browsing.

[Coke355mL]

When I switched, I actually did notice a difference between about:blank and -nohome.

Maybe it's just you...

[GTI]

I've been using these in Firefox:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" /prefetch:1
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffpreloader/