Firefox is in the ICU

Startup times for Firefox are insanely long on all my machines. Same story for my colleagues.

Most have switched to Chrome or IE 8 largely because of this problem.

I've been ignoring the problem for a while, expecting it would be fixed. If anything it's getting worse.

Is this related to Google's abandonment of FF development? Is there any way to raise a red alert here?

I don't want FF to the way of Netscape.