Running firefox in the background

Hi,
I find that if I launch firefox when there is already a window open, I get a much faster startup than from a when it's not open at all. I assume this is because there are a group of shared processes which don't have to be started when the second firefox is opened.
How would I go about getting these shared processes starting at login so that I can have consistently fast startups for firefox? I can't find anything about this on the wiki or in google questions. Is such a thing even possible?
Many thanks,

Actually there's quite an extensive guide on the Arch wiki for increasing Firefox startup times, as well as performance 'tweaks'.
If your using an ad blocking extension, try disabling that first. As for the rest, highlights from the wiki include:
- run the entire profile in RAM
- compress the Firefox executable
- profile cleaner (defrag SQL databases)
- stop urlclassifier3.sqlite from being created again
- turn off anti-phishing
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox -- look on the right side for further explanations.
Last edited by midfingr (2013-09-15 20:16:59)

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