Firefox 4 has massive delay opening a new tab with audio content, Firefox 3.6.16 opens the same link instantly, why?

When I open a new tab to stream an audio mp3 file from the server. Firefox 3.6.16 streams the audio instantly, Firefox 4 has really long delay with just white blank page, befor it comes with QT player. why?

I've been searching for a solution for this for months. Frankly, I'm sick of Mozilla ignoring this problem, which has persisted from version 4 through 6. Makes me ill.
The content is actually downloading, but Firefox hides the content until the entire file is downloaded. It used to display and allow you to play the partially downloaded content. Safari does this with ease. If someone can point out the parameter in about:config that controls this, I'd be grateful.

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Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan. 
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* http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
* http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
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Dear All,
Thanks for good support in web browser world.Directly i come to the question.I have excel sheet where it has 300 hyperlinks as given below(example links 3)My Excel macro is written in such a way that this will open all the link in firefox "new tab " one by one.It was perfect and page was loading in previous versions(i could not remember the exact version but i could say an year before when i used firefox it worked well).Now i am having issues opening 300 new tabs with links.It gets started loading the page but before one page loading gets completed too many new links are opening but the page is not fully loaded at all.When i click the tab for each link and see in the browser the green clour processing round sysmbol keeps on rotating.Can you please look into this issue.
If you want i can be contacted through email or if the information is not clear i am ready to connect through web sharing or to have a call.If you want spreadsheet for testing this issue i will send it.
Link Used in Excel sheet example : 300 links in same site with differrent page:
http://chartink.com/stocks/RECLTD.html
http://chartink.com/stocks/bpcl.html
http://chartink.com/stocks/itc.html
Expecting your positive reply at the earliest.Thank you!
Regards,
Marx
edit: removed your mail address from public display, since the only thing it will attract are spam bots. you will be notified per mail once somebody replies to the thread. (philipp)

Hi Marx,
With this kind of data testing it is helpful to provide context to the issue you are trying to document. This technical information is very useful to the engineers working on the performance of Firefox and I am sure this is the kind of information they would love to see.
Therefore I would like to put you in touch with this team to see what they can do with this information. Talk to the #perf channel in irc and they should be able to put you in the right direction. I am asking currently and see what I can find. Or in the meantime check out the current tab bugs in the Performance component of bugzilla provided in the search below: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=tab%20performance&list_id=9361049]

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It looks like the Firefox developers are suffering from idleness and boredom.
CHANGE IT BACK ASAP!!!

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Uninstall the Ask toolbar and it should work again. There is a compatibility issue with the Ask toolbar and Firefox that prevents new tabs from being opened.
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I have an iMac, 2015 model. operating on OS X 10.10.2 and whenever I click on just about everything in safari it opens a new tab with an ad on it. sometimes the ads are mackeeper or video hosting sites but they are just so annoying.

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