
Hate to admit this but sometimes I really suspect the slowness of my browsing experience comes from heavy memory usage by my Firefox, and there is nothing to replace good-o-firefox. I need to open too many tabs and cannot afford buggy Internet Explorer. I’ve tried it and think it helps a lot.
How to reduce memory usage in Mozilla Firefox
- Type about:config in the Firefox address bar
- Search for browser.sessionhistory.max_entries
- Double click on the value 50, change it to something lower, 5 should be good.
Explanations
Averagely we surf less than 5 of the websites we previously surfed before, there is no need to usage up that much memory (which is 50 by default)
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Posted by hongkiat in Firefox, at 02.27.07 Tags: browser, consumption, Firefox, memory, reduce |
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Comments
February 28th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Thanks for the tip. Firefox is buggy & unsecured. I had the update version 2.0 installed but there is this “automatic update” coming in and with a restart it goes back to 1.5.01.0. Any similar experience?
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February 28th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Hmm, speaking of that I have a bad experience of the Firefox updates. It prompts for update and keep on restarting endless times. I have to uninstall it, remove the firefox.exe and reinstall it back to solve the problem.
I suspect its one of the plugins I’ve installed that causes this
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March 1st, 2007 at 11:49 pm
good to know !
thx a lot !
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April 23rd, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I’ve just wrote a few tutorials on Firefox Memory Issues, this seams to be one I have missed! I’ll have to write a tutorial for this to add to my Memory Issues.
Thanks
Adam
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June 4th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
great tips as always. thanks man. :)
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June 9th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
you are awsome man
this is a very useful tip i should say
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July 2nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
Very useful. Thanks.
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July 21st, 2007 at 5:06 am
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July 21st, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Great!
Thanks
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July 24th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Working on this one. My home pc needs all the ram it can get… lol Big thanks. How much space are we talking about here?
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July 24th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Great TUT, thanks Hongkiat!
One thing to keep in mind: The polaroid image itself is a square. So you wanna keep the width and height equal (step 4). Look at W & H in the “Info” tab (FN + F8 for Mac).
As a gimmick you could add sticky tape or a drawing pin and maybe some dirt or something;)
@Lenny: You can also right-click the layer and go to Blending Options.
Cheers
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July 24th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Somehow this got into the wrong tutorial, sorry!
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August 9th, 2007 at 11:49 am
OMG how brilliant!!! I think I will hold off buying a new laptop for a few more months now :)
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September 1st, 2007 at 5:16 pm
good info, thanks!
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March 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Quite impressive mate.
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