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.
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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
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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
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As you would know Firefox is the worst offender when it comes to RAM consumption. Previously I should you some memory optimizing techniques to reduce the memory usage in Firefox, but still it doesn’t significantly reduce the memory usage.
Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is a tiny yet a god’s sent program that reduces Firefox memory usage. You’d be surprise to see the memory usage coming down to around 200 to 300 kilobytes…. What the f#$% 300 kb ? Yes this ain’t fake, it really reduces the memory usage to less then 300kb. Even with five to ten tabs and many extensions running memory usage didn’t went up from say 2mb. I’m just really surprised by this app. In one word “marvelous”.
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You probably would have encountered Youtube videos starting automatically. I found out some cool Firefox extension that to disable these videos from playing automatically.
TubeStop Firefox Extension
The TubeStop firefox extension disables the autoplay feature of YouTube videos, as well as videos on other sites like MySpace and Blogger.
Download TubeStop Extension
Youtube Prevent Autoplay Greasemonkey Script
Most of us love Greasemonkey because it doesn’t bloats your pc memory that much then the Firefox extensions does.This is where Prevent Autoplay Script comes to the play, simple script that prevents youtube auto playing the videos.
Download Youtube Prevent Autoplay Script from userscripts.org
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Most of us are accustomed to using Internet Explorer and i’m sure you’d probably fed up of the download restrictions of only 2 files from the same website. The reason of-course is the lame HTTP 1.1 spec that says only two connections may be allowed at a time so your browser just have to wait for the previous downloads to complete.
With a simple registry hack you can supercharge IE to download more then 2 files.
Manual Registry Hack
Open regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:
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With all the daily surfing that i go through, i find it really frustrating to go trough endless scores of windows. This mostly happened due to click happy fingers clicking on just about any link it comes across. Hey what can i do if someone disguise a MLM or porn site with a what it seems to be a shopping or informative link.
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