Now I remember some years ago, I wrote the Firefox Preloader. It was a small open-source application that would load Firefox in the background. Now since then, a Firefox extension known as Minimize To Tray has appeared which offers the same functionality and then some.

Well, it’s almost three years old, and I have stopped working on it since the automatic update system for Firefox had trouble with it. I also stopped using it since I now use the extension I mentioned before. Even still, it seems people are discovering and using the preloader even today.

Here is a link to a site that has made an article about it this year. This does make me ask the question that I titled this article. I am also happy to see that my software has made it into Secunia’s database.

But in all this I would probably now recommend Minimize To Tray over my old Firefox Preloader until I can figure out a way around the software update system being unable to update Firefox while it’s running.