Posted on 04/12/2006 11:20:39 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
There has been a lot of news flying around and I have simply not had the time to write about it, the last couple of days have been very busy, expect a flurry of articles in the coming days. Now lets explore the wonder that is known as Firefox.
Over the last few months I have noticed people complaining about Firefox and the memory ‘leaks’ and how much memory Firefox hordes for itself. I guess for some people the 40-60Mb of ram that Firefox is sitting on is expensive, but for me, Firefox doesn’t get close to touching my gig of ram, but for those performance nuts that like to do SuperPI runs while browsing the internet, this guide is for you. I have spent days and days (edit: hours) scouring the internet for all the tweaks, hacks, hax, plug-ins, extensions, and tricks that let you eke out every bit of performance and efficiency from Firefox. First off, the hacks.
Minimize Hack
The first hack that I have here is the popular Firefox Minimize Hack that has recently flashed through the internet. The purpose of this hack tries to keep Firefox from eating up your physical RAM and instead puts the burden on your hard drive, or at least that is the general reason behind it. To implement this hack, perform the following steps.
(Excerpt) Read more at gomeler.com ...
This is a very well done piece with screenshots....
I use the FasterFox and ForecastFox, tab browsers preferences....but I am looking for more good stuff.
Got Xinha Here ....an HTML Editor but don't know how to use it yet ....
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Some people on Digg.com mentioned this extension, which I have used before. Fasterfox lets you tweak everything I mentioned in the networking about:config and a few other options. I originally didn’t include Fasterfox because it tweaks a few things that could possibly slow down Firefox, such as the initial paint delay. On a side note, some admins on various servers started banning the Fasterfox prefetch routine and some have gone to the extent of IP banning, so be careful with what you install.
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It is indeed, super duper.
I wish somebody would come up with an extension that blocks Akamai and other content providers. I don't need to be having my browser basically pinging their servers all the time.(and the resultant slower response)
Check out Adblock. It works great.
Testing
Damn good....thanks...
Long time ago, I was using IJB, Internet Junkbusters, which worked great. But it takes some maintenance, and since I build and reformat computers all the time, I kinda fell away from using it.
I had the text file of blocked sites and filters up to about 50K's worth of crud.
http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
points 3/4ths of the add servers on the net to 127.0.0.1
I see very few adds and banners.
How/where do you download it? I've been digging through half a dozen Mozilla pages for the last half hour, and can't find a download.
Sometimes those Linux type folks really have their heads up their... well, you know.
Also, if you install Adblock, I'd also recommend Filterset.G. It's a blacklist for Adblock, so you won't have to bother teaching Adblock all the sites you want blocked.
bookmark.
Thanks. I installed them both. Initial trials make me think it may take a while to train.
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