Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Optimize Firefox

Limit the use of RAM:
If you use Firefox took a lot of memory, you can limit the amount of RAM to use.
Again, go to about: config, filter "browser.cache" and select "browser.cache.disk.capacity. Is set to 50000, but you can reduce it, depending on the memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512 and 1 GB of RAM.


Reduce the use of RAM when Firefox is minimized:
Maybe this is the best trick of all.
We will create an entry in about: config so that when Firefox minimize reduce the use of RAM.
Enter about: config / Right click / New / Logic / "config.trim_on_minimize" / value "true"


Remove the close button or move the tabs:
Click the button accidentally closing the tab in Firefox?
You can move or delete them, again through about: config. Edit the "browser.tabs.closeButtons. Here is the meaning of each value:
  • 0: Display a close button only on the active tab
  • 1: (Default) Displays the button to close all tabs.
  • 2: Remove the close button.
  • 3: (For users of Firefox 1.x), shows the close button at the bottom of the tab bar.

Add Youtube (for example) as your search:
Next to the address bar is the quick search bar, go to www.youtube.com, now press the button next to the search bar, which really comes near the end of the menu, the option "Add Youtube Video Search ", click on this option and you can find on Youtube from the bar directly. (Thanks xkod)