Comments on: Speed up Firefox by Improving Memory Usage

By: Donald B. Dousharm

Donald B. Dousharm — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:19:31 +0000

I hop this works. I browse hundreds a day and get that slowdown.

Thanks!

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By: Aussie Mum, Bree

Aussie Mum, Bree — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:56:09 +0000

Thanks for the tip mate. I’m unsure if I saw an immediate performance hit but will see during my next browser session.

By: StarCraft 2

StarCraft 2 — Tue, 22 May 2007 21:03:57 +0000

Thanks for the tip!!!
I could see the improvements right away!

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Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:20:17 +0000

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By: Vikram

Vikram — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:45:58 +0000

It Really worked for me Thilak.Nice Trick

By: Thilak

Thilak — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:31:24 +0000

Bryan: yup, I guess you’ll have to restart Firefox for the changes to reflect.

Anirudh: We will be glad if you share them with us

Abhishek: But, that will remove everything, including my saved password, history and cache files.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:13:06 +0000

Good info, if I am not wrong even the guys from This Week In Tech said that the problems were coming from memory leaks. I will try this tweak.

By: abhishek bhatnagar

abhishek bhatnagar — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:46:48 +0000

gr8 trick….but i suggest this thing can also be done by

go to tools>Clear private data ,and check the appropriate boxes.

By: Anirudh

Anirudh — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:56:32 +0000

One way I speeded up my firefox is by disabling the searching for updates at beginning. this really increased my start up speed.

There are some other sweet firefox hacks.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:19:07 +0000

I have given it a shot. We will see what happens. I am assuming you have to restart Firefox for this to take place?

By: Phalgun

Phalgun — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:04:44 +0000

Nice trick.

By: Sankar Anand

Sankar Anand — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:23:09 +0000

Thanks for the Tricks thilak