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How to Reduce Firefox Memory Usage

Posted by on September 1, 2010 No comments

Firefox has became a primary browser and some users may suffer from firefox’s RAM usage, It may lag your computer and slow down it.
Following are tips to decrease Firefox memory usage and increase CPU speed

Method 1

Step 1: In the Firefox address bar type about:config and press Enter.

Step 2: Create a Boolean (false) value and name it “config.trim_on_minimize”, without quotations. Set it’s value to ‘True’.

You should set the value according to the mount of physical RAM installed on your computer. Set value according to the following: (Installed RAM: 256MB / Set the value to: 4096), (Installed RAM: 512MB / Set the value to: 8192), (Installed RAM: 1GB / Set the value to: 16384), (Installed RAM: 2GB /Set the value to: 32768), (Installed RAM: 4GB / Set the value to: 65536) (Installed RAM: 8GB / Set the value to: 131072).

Method 2:

Step 1: Open Firefox and click Tools in the browser top menu, then click Options > Privacy.

Step 2: In the ‘History’ section, leave ‘Remember what I’ve downloaded’ unchecked.

Step 3: In the ‘Private Data’ section, click the button ‘Clear now…’, when the dialog box comes up, put a check mark beside these items: Cache, Saved From and Searched History, Offline Website Data. You can mark the ‘Cookies’, too, if you want. Click ‘OK’.

These two methods will help you in reducing firefox’s ram usage. Happy browsing =)

How to Fix Script Error Problems With Firefox

Posted by on May 21, 2010 No comments

You might face Unresponsive Script warning/error while browsing websites with Firefox.

This might lead Firefox to freeze for a moment and may irritate you. This is a alert you get when you try to use sites that auto updates itself, or web2.0 based sites.

Follow the below given steps to fix this problem.

Step 1: Type about:config in a blank tab in the Firefox url field

Step 2: In the text field marked as filter, search for the dom.max_script_run_time option, It will be like

Step 3: Right click on this field and click on modify, you will get a screen, In this instead of the default 5 enter 20 – 30

That’s it. You are done. You wont face any unresponsive script error problems in your Firefox. Happy browsing =)

Twitter Add-on Echofon for Mozilla Firefox

Posted by on May 6, 2010 No comments

Firefox has became the primary browser for many internet users and when you use Firefox for the whole day, then Echofon a firefox add-on can be used with your Firefox. Echofon for Firefox is an extension that adds a tiny icon to the status bar. You can get notified about every time friends post tweets and has a text entry field for posting your own tweets. You can also manage multiple Twitter accounts with the addon. You can use Echofon for iPhone as well. Echofon for Firefox syncs unread tweets with your iPhone when you use Echofon for iPhone.

Some Features of Echofon:
- Unread count in Firefox status bar.
- One-click access to Twitter window.
- Easily post links to current page in Firefox.
- Instant notification of new Tweets, within Firefox.
- Allows for multiple Twitter accounts
- Handles all the standard Twitter tasks such as direct messages and mentions.
- auto pagination
- Combine sequence tweets

Firefox Tip – Handling JavaScript Popups

Posted by on May 3, 2010 No comments

As Firefox is open source, it is providing us more functionality in browsing. I will be guiding you how to handle the javascript popup in Firefox. While browsing a site a site which executes a javascript open new window function, and if the popup window is without all the usual window features such as back/forward/reload buttons, status bar etc. Firefox will automatically treat it as a popup and will not open it as a new tab. However, if you find this to be a nuisance and if you want to open all new javascript popup windows in a new tabs, you can specify it through a simple tweak in the Firefox

Now go to URL and type about:config

Then navigate to browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction

The following are 3 values that can be given in the input box:

0 : Open all links as how Firefox can handle new windows
1 : Do not open any new windows
2 : Open all links as how Firefox can handle new windows unless the Javascript specify how to display the window

And then set the value to 2

That’s it. You are done. Happy browsing =)

Firefox Tweak for Fast Browsing

Posted by on May 2, 2010 No comments

In previous posts i have given some tips and tricks, now comes the tweak part for Firefox. Follow the steps given below to experience a difference in your browsing speed:

Step 1: Write “about:config” in address bar (without quotes)

Step 2: Search for entry “network.http.pipelining” and change its value to “true”

Step 3: Search for entry “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and change its to “true”

Step 4: Set entry “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to anywhere from 30 to 50.

Step 5: Right Click on the page and select New, then Integer. Name it as “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and put its value as 0

That is it. You have done. Now restart your firefox and get ready for a speedy browsing.

Happy browsing =)

How to Add Smileys in Twitter

Posted by on May 1, 2010 No comments

Smileys are a stylized representation of a human face. Smileys are used to express your feelings. You can add smileys in twitter to interact with your friends. Here is a how to guide for adding smileys in twitter

You will be using a userscript in your Firefox to put smileys in Twitter. So you will be needing Firefox, if you dont have firefox you can download here. Now install the Greasemonkey. To get the smileys visit here and install the script. Restart firefox and you are done.

Now navigate to Twitter and Enjoy tweeting with emoticons =)

How to Install Mozilla Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10

Posted by on April 28, 2010 No comments

A guide to install the Mozilla Firefox in your Ubuntu 9.10.

Step 1: Download the latest Firefox 3.6 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.6.3&os=linux&lang=en-US

Step 2: Run the Archive Manager as root by pressing alt+f2 and runing gksu file-roller

Step 3: Open firefox-3.6.tar.bz2 from your Downloads folder

Step 4: Extract the firefox folder to /opt/

Step 5: Open Terminal from Accessories menu

Step 6: Run the following commands

1. sudo mv /opt/firefox/Plugins /opt/firefox/Plugins-orig
2. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-addons/Plugins /opt/firefox
3. sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-orig
4. sudo ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin

Step 7: That’s it you are done installing =)

Firefox-Funny tweaks

Posted by on April 23, 2010 No comments

Here are some funny firefox tweaks. Try it out. Go to the URL bar and type the following and have fun

chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul
It SHOWS Dancing Firefox.

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
It Opens another Firefox inside a tab in the the existing Firefox window.

chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul
It Opens the Options dialog box inside the Firefox tab.

chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul
It Opens the “BookMark Manager” inside a tab in the Firefox window.

chrome://browser/content/history/history-panel.xul
It Opens the History Panel in the Firefox tab.

chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul?type=extensions
It Opens the Extensions window in the current tab.

chrome://browser/content/preferences/cookies.xul
It Opens the “cookies window” inside a tab in the Firefox window.

chrome://browser/content/preferences/sanitize.xul
It Opens the “Clear Private Data” window inside the current tab.

chrome://browser/content/aboutDialog.xul
It Opens the “About Firefox” Dialog box inside the tab.

chrome://browser/content/credits.xhtml
It Opens a scrolling list of names. The one’s who we must thank for creating Firefox

Firefox Tweak-Enable Spell Checking In All Text Fields

Posted by on April 22, 2010 No comments

Firefox by default performs spell checking as you type for text areas, but not single line text input fields, so this little tweak will allow you to change that

First navigate to about:config

Then type as layout.spell into the filter box

Double-click the field layout.spellcheck.Default and change the value from 1 to 2

That’s it, you are done.

Tips To Reduce Firefox Memory and Cache Usage

Posted by on April 21, 2010 No comments

You may feel that Firefox is such a memory burden. Sometimes when you try to open up a few tabs, it starts to slow down your whole system. You can do something about it. Here are simple tips and tricks to reduce Firefox memory and cache usage

Reduce memory usage when minimizing

1. Start up Firefox
2. Type in about:config in the address bar and hit Enter
3. Right click and choose New > Boolean
4. Type config.trim_on_minimize in the pop-up box and hit Enter
5. Select True and hit Enter.
6. Restart Firefox

Reduce session history

browser.sessionhistory.max_entries determines the maximum number of pages in the browser’s session history, that is the maximum number of URLs you can traverse purely through the Back/Forward buttons. The Default value is 50.
We usually won’t surf more than 5 of the websites we previously surfed before, and there is really no need to store more than that in the session which can clog up memory as they grow.
1. Open Firefox
2. Type about:config in the Firefox address bar
3. Press CTRL-F and search for browser.sessionhistory.max_entries
4. Double click on the value 50 (or whatever value is there currently) and change it to something lower such as 5.
5. Restart Firefox.

Fixed cache capacity OR Disable Cache Totally

Every time new page is loaded, Firefox will cache the page so it doesn’t need to load again to be redisplayed. By default, this setting is set to -1 for browser.cache.memory.capacity and to a number you specified in Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Network / Cache for browser.cache.disk.capacity

To fix your cache to a certain value:

*browser.cache.memory.enable and browser.cache.disk.enable needs to be True for this to work
1. Start up Firefox
2. Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter
3. Search for browser.cache.memory.capacity and set a number in KB to use for the memory cache (ie. 1024KB = 1MB).
4. Search for browser.cache.disk.capacity and set a number in KB to use for the disk cache (ie. 1024KB = 1MB).

To Disable the cache Totally

Set both browser.cache.memory.capacity and browser.cache.disk.capacity to 0.
Alternatively, you can also set browser.cache.disk.enable and browser.cache.memory.enable to False.
Finally to Check Firefox Memory Usage

Type about:cache?device=memory in the address bar and hit Enter. Firefox will display your current number of entries, maximum storage size, storage in use and inactive storage.

That’s it.