Controlling Add-on Startup Behavior

Add-ons Development
#1

Greetings.

I’m looking for a bit of help in identifying the correct js which would allow for management of Add-ons at browser startup.

A timed delay loading of all Add-ons would probably serve my purposes here; but I might also be able to use a code segment to reload all Add-ons after the browser starts.

Of course, something as simple setting a pref (in place of digging into actual code) to delay Add-on loading could be of significant help as well…

Any syntax/ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

#2

From the official API point of view, there is Management API. Maybe you could use it to quickly disable all addons and then enable them one by one? :slight_smile: Maybe even disable them when browser is about to exit…

Also disable + enable probably === addon reload :slight_smile:. There is also browser.runtime.reload(), but that works only for a single addon that executing it.

Now I don’t know why you need this, but if your browser takes forever to start and you just want to speed things up, as an alternative solution you can try to:

  • use Firefox Reset to make things fresh
  • use only one ad-block, or use different one (uBlock Origin suppose to be fast) and don’t enable all filters available
  • upgrade your PC :slight_smile: (if it can save you few minutes every day, it’s worth it!)
#3

Thank you for the suggestions, juraj.masiar. You got me thinking about a couple of things…

We’ll see what I dig out; and I’ll post another missive if things don’t go quite as planned :wink:

Have a great day!

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