Firefox 1.5 is a memory hog

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:11 am

The debat rages whether it's a feature or a leak...but here is a fix.

go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\greprefs\all.js

and change

browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0 (from -1). Firefox will stop caching pages and you'll be back to the fast browser you love so much.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:31 am

Thanks for that.

Although I have not had many problems since I upgraded my RAM, I'm up for speed.

M2 · Post by M2 » Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:58 am

Thanks!

m2

peter dragon · Post by **peter dragon** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:36 pm

rack you psu.. I was thinking it was my computer and was about to drop some cash on some ram.. still might but not because of the firefox trouble.

thanks

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:54 pm

Latest: I've downloaded Opera, and I like it a lot. Firefox has utterly JACKED UP my computer. I open it, and within a few clicks my CPU is at 100%, churning away at nothing. This doesn't appear to happen with Opera.

I certainly prefer the extensions that FF offers, but speed -- or actually, basic operability -- definitely trumps them, I guess.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:06 pm

Latest: I'm 99% sold on Opera. If there's a BBCode extension floating around, I'm all in.

peter dragon · Post by **peter dragon** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:34 pm

whats the latest? I see firefox released a new version.. any word?

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:56 am

the latest for me is that I've been using Opera 100% lately. I will install the latest FF to see how it works.

peter dragon · Post by **peter dragon** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:19 pm

I downloaded opera the other day. Its not too bad. it takes some getting use to. I kinda like the feature where you close the window and open it back up and all the sites you were at are still there. but it makes it hard to look at porn. LOL I do want to know how I import my firefox bookmarks tool bar. I know there is an import/export feature but it doesnt seem to work. any Ideas?

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:19 pm

http://www.resortlabs.com/bookmark-mana ... mander.php

That program's a 30 day trial, but you can definitely use it to import bookmarks of all kinds.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:11 pm

Very cool, thanks.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:14 pm

I'm doing OK with FF. I upped my memory to 1 gig though, and since then things are great. I can have 5 FF browser windows open, MSword, adobe acrobat, and photoshop, MS access, wordpad, eudora, streaming music from the web all at once, and it doesn't even blink.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:47 pm

I wish it were as simple for me as RAM or CPU power, I have a good deal of both, but FF locks my machine up after a few clicks of the mouse. Let's say I fire it up and my default home page loads (yahoo), and there are 1 or 2 flash ads there. FF maintains those in memory, so that I might be able to go "back and forth" more quickly. After a few clicks on yahoo, I check Windows task manager, and FF is using 150k-180k of RAM, which basically results in 100% CPU usage, and incredibly slow browser activity therafter. I close down FF, and the memory is reluctant to return a first...the very first day I used Opera, I was able to totally avoid this.

I love FF, I want to return to it. I simply can't, until the memory issue is resolved - and they are still calling it a feature, not a problem.

ElTaco · Post by **ElTaco** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:31 pm

I never used that feature and it wasn't enabled by default so its never been an issue for me.

Plus yahoo as a home page?

peter dragon · Post by **peter dragon** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:24 pm

I am slowly using Opera as it is much faster than FF. The only problem I am having is accessing my work and school email. they both are based on a windows format online email and opera has a hard time loading them. oh well

mouse · Post by **mouse** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:06 pm

since I have a 1998 packard bell with windows ME? I am fucked no matter what.