Firefux issue.... too much memory

[9xlinux]

Removing 3rd party toolbars will reduce your memory usage.

9xlinux Reviewed by 9xlinux on 30th Jan 2010. Firefux issue.... too much memory Reinstalled my computer and downloaded FF off their site. now i just noticed its been lagging. taskmgr showed 600MB and now 300MB memory usage by FF. Ver: 3.6 anyone having issues? Rating: 5

[bluedevil]

mine using 154 MB with 6 tabs included youtube.

[jayfella]

lemme ask you this: why did you purchase the memory in your computer if you dont like applications using it?

If its available, of course a program is going to use it, thats what its there for.

If its required by something else, e.g. a game, windows will throw un-neccessary stuff into the swap file. When you exit your game and go back into firefox, you will notice a 1 or 2 second pause, which is just windows re-loading everything back from the swap-file back into memory.

Dont worry about your memory. It has a perfectly capable memory manager. Just worry about the TSR (Terminate, Stay Resident) programs your using. These are sitting there waiting for you to press a certain key-stroke or whatever, doing nothing at all but wasting memory for 99% of the time.

[Storm]

get memoyfox addon

[iMage]

disable a bunch of addons you are using

here are some ways i have found as well to increase the speed of FF as well without addons,use these methods at your own risk though

If Firefox is fubar’d because you accidentally misconfigured about:config, you can fix it in one of two ways:

• Make a backup of your prefs.js file before you start editing. Then, if something goes wrong, you can restore it by copying it over the corrupt file.
• If you can’t restore via a backup prefs.js file, you can exit Firefox and issue the command firefox -safe-mode to bring up the Firefox Safe Mode screen. Then, just select Reset All User Preferences To Firefox Defaults. Note: This will restore all user preferences to their default values.

1: Speed up Firefox

This hack requires a few steps. Search for pipelining in the filter and you should see:

network.http.pipelining: Change this to true.

network.http.proxy.pipelining: Change this to true.

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: Change this to 8.

Now search for max-connections and you should see:

network.http.max-connections: Change this to 96.

network.http.max-connections-per-server: Change this to 32.

2: Disable antivirus scanning

This is only for the Windows version. If you’re downloading large files, this scanning can seriously slow things down. And since you will most likely scan the downloaded file anyway, you’ll probably want to disable this. Of course, if you are uber paranoid (not a bad trait for computing), you might want to leave this entry alone.

To disable antivirus scanning, search for scanWhenDone and you should see:

browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone: Change this to false.

3: Open Javascript popups as tabs

If a popup window lacks the features of a browser window, Firefox will handle it like a popup. If you would prefer to open all windows, including popups, as new tabs, you need to tell Firefox in about:config. Search for newwindow and you will see three entries. Of those three entries, you will want to modify:

browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction: Change this to 0.

4: Spell checking in all fields

By default, Firefox checks spelling only in multiple-line text boxes. You can set it to check spelling in all text boxes. Search for spellcheckdefault and you should see:

layout.spellcheckDefault: Change this to 2.

5: Open search bar results in new tab

When you use the search bar, the results display in the current tab. This can be a nuisance because you will navigate out of the page you are currently in. To make sure Firefox always opens search results in a new tab, search for openintab and you should see:

browser.search.openintab: Change this to true.

6: Auto export bookmarks

In Firefox 3, bookmarks are automatically saved and exported for you. The only problem is that by default, they’re saved as places.sqlite instead of the more convenient bookmarks.html. To change this setting so that they can be easily re-imported, search for autoExportHTML and you should see:

browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML: Change this to true.

7: Disable extension install delay

One of the few gripes I have with Firefox is the silly countdown you must endure every time you want to install an extension. Fortunately, this can be disabled. Search for enable_delay and you should see:

security.dialog_enable_delay: Change this to 0.

8: View source code in an external editor

When you need to view the source of a page, it opens up in browser popup. Most developers would probably like to have that opened in their favorite editor instead of having to cut and paset. To do this, there are two entries to modify. Search for view_source.editor and you will see:

view_source.editor.external: Change this to true.

view_source.editor.path: Change this to the explicit path to your editor of choice.

9: Get more add-on search results

When you do a search in the Add-on window, you’ll see just five results. You might find it more efficient to increase this number. Search for getAddons and you should see:

extension.getAddons.maxResults: Change this to 10 (or higher, if you want to see even more).

10: Redefine the Backspace button

Did you know you can configure Firefox to use the backspace button to either go back a page or go up a page? This keeps power users from having to go back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse. Search for backspace and you will see:

browser.backspace_action: Change this to 0 for previous page and 1 for page up.

[DLow]

I wouldn't change the max connections because smart people use ibtables on the server & have them set too ban at a certain amount of connections say 80 or so.

[Chri5]

unisntall it and use chrome

[Clowner]

unisntall it and use chrome

u mean opera

[To0]

unisntall it and use chrome

+1

I do use FireFox as well. No longer than 2 hours at a time however. Right around that time frame it begins destroying my resources and requires a restart. Really annoying tbh.

[EvilGenius]

Chrome sucks ass, its linked to IE properties.

I'll try safari