Tweaks for Firefox 2.0

Posted: December 10th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: IT Related | 11 Comments »

Increase the Speed in Which Firefox loads pages

  • Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return.
  • Alter the entries as follows:
  1. Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
  2. Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
  3. Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 20
  • Right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer and add these velues:
  1. “nglayout.initialpaint.delay”: set “0″
  2. “content.notify.backoffcount”: set “5″
  3. “ui.submenuDelay”: set “0″ (zero)
  • Right-click anywhere and select New-> String and add these velues:
  1. network.dns.disableIPv6: set “false”
  2. “plugin.expose_full_path”: set “true”

Kill RAM usage to 10mb when FF is minimized

(hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized)

  • Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
  • Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
  • In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
  • Now select True and then press Enter.

Kill the amount of RAM Firefox uses for it’s cache feature

  • type “about:config” (no quotes) in the browser.
  • Find browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewer
  • set it’s value to “0″

Fetch only what you click

  • type “about:config” (no quotes) in the browser.
  • Find network.prefetch-next
  • set it’s value to “false″

Turn off chrome tooltips

  • type “about:config” (no quotes) in the browser.
  • Find browser.chrome.toolbar_tips
  • set it’s value to “false″

Memory leaking

  • type “about:config” (no quotes) in the browser.
  • Set “browser.cache.memory.enable” to “false”
  • Set “config.trim_on_minimize” to “true”
  • Set “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers” according to Pages value in this table:
    RAM Pages
    32MB 0
    64MB 1
    128MB 2
    256MB 3
    512MB 5
    1GB 8
    2GB 8
    4GB 8
  • Set “browser.cache.memory.capacity” according to Memory Cache value in this table:
    Physical RAM Memory Cache (in KB)
    32 MB 2048
    64 MB 4096
    128 MB 6144
    256 MB 10240
    512 MB 14336
    1 GB 18432
    2 GB 24576
    4 GB 30720

Dont forget forget to restart your firefox 😉

Ok, now lets compare firefox2.0 with IE7


11 Comments on “Tweaks for Firefox 2.0”

  1. 1 faezah said at 7:54 PM on December 10th, 2006:

    a total different results… thanxx!~! 🙂

  2. 2 xanda said at 8:12 PM on December 10th, 2006:

    thanks to technology 😉

  3. 3 Sha said at 3:21 AM on December 11th, 2006:

    AAA, nak ckp ke tak nak? Uhmm..uhmm..ckp jugak!
    Nan, telah memalukan dirinya terang-terangan tadi dengan saya.
    AAA, kesian giler..tapi takper, eyes always play games with us! Hihu.
    Cheers!~

  4. 4 Sardine said at 12:48 PM on December 11th, 2006:

    sharing is caring.. i likr dis kinda tutorial.. cos it is some sorta bhind da scene thingy hahahaha~ kip on goin dude~

  5. 5 xanda said at 7:31 PM on December 11th, 2006:

    go Nan go!!

  6. 6 hmph~ said at 8:16 PM on December 11th, 2006:

    apesal aku nyer tak dpt 10Mb? 30 lagikk.. dah ikut dah sumer step. hmmph~

  7. 7 xanda said at 11:53 PM on December 11th, 2006:

    (hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized)

    minimize firefox ko… at the same time tgk task manager. minimizing = squeezing 😉

  8. 8 Azra said at 6:21 PM on December 12th, 2006:

    aku pun tak jadik a!

  9. 9 Azra said at 6:23 PM on December 12th, 2006:

    Eh, eh, eh…dah jadi! Wahahaha…kena minimized dulu. Tak perasan. Ahaha.

  10. 10 xanda said at 6:48 PM on December 12th, 2006:

    hampeh azra…

  11. 11 ZaiD said at 10:13 AM on December 15th, 2006:

    lol, apa nak tweak kan firefox korang ni?
    tgk aku ni, pakai dual core…
    firefox makan 84 000k processor..
    relax jer aku ni..

    conclusion – gi tukar processor baru.. the end


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