How to speed up your firefox and remove memory leaks.

Everybody knows that Firefox saves pages into its cache. This makes it so that when you click your back button the page will be loaded from cache. But this slows down firefox pretty much. Here’s a few solutions to speed up / optimize firefox that can lead to a low-memory usage of Firefox. I personally have 1270 MB RAM on my laptop and a 1,5 Intel Celeron M processor.

Open a new tab by pressing CTRL+T and enter about:config.

Search for browser.sessionhistory. Double click on browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers and replace the -1 value with the value 0. This will make it so that the next time you’ll click your back button the page will be reloaded instead of beeing read from cache and therefore minimizing the memory that Firefox is using.

Are you a download-addict ? Or simply you seem to forget where you’re downloading your files and keeping your Download list with all your past week’s downloads ? Well, this takes up a little too much of Firefox’s memory. So, press CTRL+J (if your Downloads tab is closed) and click on Clean Up. Eventually you can go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy and look for Private Data (last column). Click on Settings, now check the Download History, and click OK. You can also make repeat automatically by checking the Always clear my private data when i close Firefox (this will make it so that all the selected informations will be deleted when closing Firefox) and uncheck the Ask me before clearing private data, to get rid of the dialog that pops-out when you’re trying to close Firefox. Press OK.

You’re using addons (don’t we all?) ? You have some addons that you installed just for testing purposes or you’re using them very rarely/never ? UNINSTALL THEM (don’t disable them). Just keep the ones you’re using often or daily. After uninstall it’s recommended that you restart your Firefox. Have the feeling that firefox is still eating pretty much memory ? It could be a addon problem. You can check that by starting firefox in safe-mode, by going to Start -> Run and enter firefox.exe -safe-mode. If Firefox’s performance boosts up you should proceed to uninstall every plugin (one at a time) and check which one is slowing your firefox down. You badly need that addon ? Look for an alternative on http://addons.firefox.org and see the difference.

Enjoy your new and faster firefox that will eat only the amount of memory it needs to run smoothly and i really hope this tip & trick helped you.

madalin

Sunt un tip franc, care spune lucrurilor pe nume. Sunt pătimaş şi perseverent, dar uneori mă plictisesc repede. Încerc să fiu un om bun. În cele mai multe situaţii, îmi reuşeşte. În detrimentul meu. Vrei mai multe ? Uită-te pe pagina despre mine.