MrFlibble Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 I'm sure some of this is rather common knowledge, but I found the following tips on boosting Firefox performance useful:Settings to Speed-up Firefox for Each System Configuration (note that you might need to create some of the preference entries in about:config)Optimize Firefox’s memory usage by tweaking session preferences (exactly what it says on the tin)How to reduce the memory usage on Firefox?Reduce Memory Usage In FirefoxBTW, apparently, I'm not the only one who has problems with PDF files in Firefox, here's the article that addresses the issue:How to prevent PDF's from freezing FireFox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athanasios Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 But in many cases you have to sacrifice functionality. For example this suggestion:* don't use more than 5 extensionsin pretty useless.Thanks for links. I will try some of them. Anyway it is wise to clear history automatically when you exit FF-including those of the LSO cookies you don't really need(extension required: 'BetterPrivacy'). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 These also seem to be useful:SOLVED: Firefox high CPU load with plugin-containerStop Plugin-Container in Firefox 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athanasios Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Thanks a lot. Using my old PC now with only 512MB RAM. Going to stop it. FF + Pl. Cont ~ 200MB. Let me fix it and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 You could also try allocating less RAM for browser cache to reduce strain on memory by changing the browser.cache.memory.capacity parameter. By default, Firefox auto-detects memory cache size depending on total amount of RAM, but you can set it up for any fixed value you wish.BTW, I fixed the PDF problem I mentioned above by simply turning off the Adobe plug-in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athanasios Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Thanks. are you using a google docs plugin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Nope, I don't. I've only dealt with GoogleDocs a few times when some articles I looked for were archived there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Firefox 5 ReleasedRelease NotesBetter than 4. Fixes some problems and improved speed. Seems to be converging with Chrome (can't tell the difference between the two). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Upgraded. It really seems to be noticeably faster. Thanks for the info! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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