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Decrease Firefox Memory Usage

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Firefox memory usage depends on the amount of installed themes, plug-ins and extensions, I’ve tested the following settings on Windows and Ubuntu, let me tell you how to cut almost 50% of Firefox memory usage

1- Set Firefox to use less memory upon minimize

Write in the address bar about:config and press ENTER
Make a Boolean value and name it config.trim_on_minimize and set it’s value to True.

2- Set Firefox to have fixed size of memory usage

Search for browser.cache.memory.enable and set it to True.
Make an Integer value and name it browser.cache.memory.capacity and set it as the below table:

Installed Ram:	Value you should set:	Comment:
256 MB	4096	also set it for less Ram
512 MB	8192
1 GB	16384
2 GB	32768	My settings
4 GB	65536

NOTE:
To restore the value to default change the value of browser.cache.memory.capacity to –1.

You may use a plug-in called RAMBack which will cause Firefox to issue an internal notification to free up memory that is otherwise held for performance purposes; You can download this plug-in or add it to your Firefox from here.

Enjoy better browsing

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Tune firefox speed

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

1- Type about:config in the address bar
2- Set the following values:

network.http.pipelining (Set to TRUE)
network.http.proxy.pipelining (Set to TRUE)
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests (Set to 20)

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Spell Check All Text Fields in Firefox

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

What do you do about misspelling words in text boxes? Well, you use the built-in Firefox spell check feature. However, by default it does not work with ALL text fields. That can simply be rectified though your about:config settings.

Just type in about:config into your address bar to get started. Next, into the filter text box, type in layout.spell. That should bring up the preference name layout.spellcheckDefault. Right-click it, and then select “Modify”. Change the 1 (default value) to 2 and you should be all set.

Firefox’s built in spell check will now check all text fields, no matter where or how they are used on the web site in question.

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Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Ctrl + Shift + T = Reload Closed Tab
Ctrl + Shift + R = Reload Web Page, Override Cache
Ctrl + Shift + Tab = Go Backwards When Scrolling Through Tabs (right to left)
Ctrl + Shift + G = Find Toolbar searches page backwards (down to up)
Ctrl + Shift + Del = Clear Private Data
Ctrl + Shift + D = Bookmark All Open Tabs
Ctrl+Shift+Enter = Adds .org to the end of an address in the address bar
Ctrl + Shift + B = Organize Bookmarks
Ctrl + Shift + E = Adblockplus addon preferences
Ctrl + Shift + F = Foxmarks Addon settings
Ctrl + Shift + H = Show Browsing History
Ctrl + Shift + J = Firefox Error Console
Ctrl + Shift + L = Open selected links using the Linky addon
Ctrl + Shift + Q = Foxclock addon Zone Picker
Ctrl + Shift + S = Synchronize books using Foxmarks Addon
Ctrl + Shift + V = Show items blockable with the Adblockplus addon
Ctrl + Shift + W = Close the current window
Ctrl + Shift + X = toggle typing direction of current textbox

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Disable Firefox Remember Password Dialog

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

This tip is to disable the small message appearing after writing any password, it is asking you whether you need to save the password or not for this website.