As you would know I’m the owner, webmaster and everything of www.thinktechno.com. Most of my free time goes to optimizing the website and other things. Optimizing in a sense I try to fix the problems associated with fastening, code cleaning, and checking the website with multiple website.

Problem is that almost all the versions of Firefox have no problems rendering my website, even opera does exceptionally well. But Internet explorer always gives me headaches. A minor stylesheet changes drops columns, sidebars, and do all sorts of crazy things. Add to that windows won’t allow installing multiple versions of IE.

I previously have show many tips to reduce the memory usage of Firefox. Even show a application that forces Firefox to use virtual memory and cpu to reduce physical memory usage. Most of them reduced the memory usage to a great extent, still i would love Firefox memory usage to around 90 to 120 MB. Below are few tweaks in the about:config that does some tough things.

1. Reduce memory usage when minimize

Do you know Firefox keeps sucking memory each time you minimize your Firefox. This tip will reduce the memory usage when each time you minimize your Firefox.

Tab browsing for Firefox is almost perfect for most average to intermediate users. But for a geek everything has to be picture perfect. Here are few Tab extensions that extracts more out of the already lean and mean Firefox browser.

Tab Mix Plus
Tab Mix is probably the most used tab extension. Most of the cool features came with Firefox 2. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. Also the session manager gives it total control over crashes.

Fancy Numbered Tabs

Rapidshare is probably one of the biggest filehosters in the planet. Even if it is the most used file sharing service it still lacks some basic features, like the unavailability of searching the hosted files in rapidshare.

This is where third party rapidshare search engines do the job for us. Just type in your your keywords and they will hunt down files relating to that keyword hosted on rapidshare.

Here is a complete list of 30 Rapidshare Search Engines. Use them well and have fun.

1. Filez
2. HellaFiles
3. RapidShared
4. ShareMiner
5. FilesBot

Firefox maybe the best web browser out in the internet but it isn’t bulletproof when it comes to the memory leakage usage. More the windows, tabs, extension it sucks more memory. Fortunately there is a small fix that will minimize the memory leakage to some extend. Don’t bet it will fix it forever, still better to have something rather then a zero.

Heres what you do:

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.

I have started to use Firefox ever since i jumped in the business of blogging and web design. Apart from being a great browser, it does lots of things. I have practically turn Firefox in the ultimate web development tool, letting me realtime editing capability over the stylesheets, html etc. In this article I’ll show you a collection of useful Add-ons and how to configure them to turn Firefox into the ultimate test environment for creating Web Pages.

Create Separate Profile for Web Development

If you are already using Google or Yahoo Toolbar you probably won’t want to use the built-in search box in Internet Explorer 7. There’s a quick registry fix that you can do to enable / disable this.

Open up Notepad and copy the following and save it to something “IE7_NoSearchBar.reg”. Then merge it into the registry by double clicking it.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
“NoSearchBox”=dword:00000001

To disable copy this following code and save. After that merge it to the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Infodelivery\Restrictions]
“NoSearchBox”=dword:00000000