firefox tricks

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:15 am

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:02 am

Well i ain't gonna try it till you tell us what it does

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:06 am

FF's best trick is utilising 99% of your system's memory

Session Manager is a pretty cool extension, it allows FF (and probably Mozilla) to do what Opera does out the box (maintains all tabs between sessions):

https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?c ... er=firefox

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:38 am

Well i ain't gonna try it till you tell us what it does

No risk no fun !

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:02 am

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:06 am

Ben Walker · Post by **Ben Walker** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:48 pm

I tried it - can't see what difference it's made. Ben.

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:53 am

it reduces the memory amount firefox is using and therefore saves ressources for other issues.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:10 am

Seems to work the same way with Mozilla too

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:19 am

Seems to work the same way with Mozilla too

Yep. Indeed. That`s probably why it`s called mozilla firefox in general.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:04 am

I think that the (memory saving) trick only works when the window is minimised though.

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:50 am

maybe.

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:46 am

And what command to use to reset my internal memory? Year by year it becomes more and more unprecise.

BTW recently I invented a not funny (but mine!) joke about Chuck Norris (borring, heh?). Here it is - Chuck Norris is going to star in the forthcoming Guiness Records Book screening.

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valis · Post by **valis** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:58 pm

Firefox's biggest memory issue atm is the fact that it never cleans up closed tabs (history that could easily be dumped because its never accessible to the user again). It does seem to cap around 60-90mb for most people though (70-80 Mb here).

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:42 pm

seems to treat a tab like an instance, with a single window it's 22MB here, now with 3 tabs it's 65MB.
not exactly frightening imho

cheers, Tom