XanaTos112 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I came across this link from cnnettv.com about speeding up firefox which i found interesting http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-26667.html?tag=bubble of course the last two suggestions are a bit obvious concerning clearing downloads and removing slow extensions, but I liked the one he said about going to "about:config" and changing the caching of previous pages via the back button. I was wondering if anybody knew of any other similar tricks that are worth doing to speed up firefox? I've only got 256mb of ram myself, and firefox is usually taking 40-60k mem usage, so would be interested in ideas to speed it up a bit. Still haven't gotten used to K-Meleon ! Who watches The Watchmen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I've had a look at and implemented some of the Firefox tweaks from the link below. One tweak that may help with low ram systems. config.trim_on_minimize [boolean] (False) *Create - This setting only works in Windows, and determines whether Firefox - much like other Windows applications - reduces its memory usage when minimized to the Taskbar. If set to true (the default), it will use less memory when minimized, which is useful for systems with low RAM and multiple open applications. However if set to false it will speed up minimizing/maximizing Firefox, as it will not constantly attempt to reduce and reclaim RAM, and this can also increase stability - thus I recommend a setting of false for most people. FF tweaks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanaTos112 Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 thank you very much for the helpful and fast reply. gonna work on these now Who watches The Watchmen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted March 25, 2007 Share Posted March 25, 2007 You might also want to give FireTune a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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