Firefox and IE View

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Chakolate

A recent post got me noticing how much memory Firefox was using, and how
with several tabs open it just slowed to a crawl, so I went looking for a
reason. In Safe Mode, it worked just fine.

It turned out to be IE View; when I disabled it, the problem disappeared.
I do like IE View, but in future I will only enable it when I need it, I
think.

Anyway, during that thread somebody also gave an about:config command for
compacting memory on minimization, and now I can't find it. Would
someone please repeat it?

Thanks!

Chak
 
A recent post got me noticing how much memory Firefox was using, and how
with several tabs open it just slowed to a crawl, so I went looking for a
reason. In Safe Mode, it worked just fine.

It turned out to be IE View; when I disabled it, the problem disappeared.
I do like IE View, but in future I will only enable it when I need it, I
think.

Anyway, during that thread somebody also gave an about:config command for
compacting memory on minimization, and now I can't find it. Would
someone please repeat it?
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Create a boolean value called 'config.trim_on_minimize' and set it to
True. That should do it..
 
Surely for someone that wants a solid replacement to IE then why are we
having to mess with these configuration settings? Surely by default the
browsers performance levels should be equal or at least as near equal to IE?

I've been using Firefox for a good year or so now because of it very good
features but I'm running a PIII 450 with 128 RAM and feel like ditching
Firefox as it seems to be getting slower and slower with each release and
yes my general PC housekeeping and maintenance is good!

Cana anyone give me any ideas what I can do to improve my experience?

Ta.

Ian Edmont.
 
Surely for someone that wants a solid replacement to IE then why are we
having to mess with these configuration settings? Surely by default the
browsers performance levels should be equal or at least as near equal to IE?

I've been using Firefox for a good year or so now because of it very good
features but I'm running a PIII 450 with 128 RAM and feel like ditching
Firefox as it seems to be getting slower and slower with each release and
yes my general PC housekeeping and maintenance is good!

Cana anyone give me any ideas what I can do to improve my experience?
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I have no problems with Firefox lately, but the obvious alternative
would seem to be Opera. Either that, or if you are hooked on Gecko
browsers then try K-Meleon perhaps...
 
Create a boolean value called 'config.trim_on_minimize' and set it to
True. That should do it..
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Oops I did that and mistakenly copied a ' .
How do I EDIT/DELETE an entry in about:config ?
 
Good alternative is Opera but many sites don't display correctly?!?!?

I'm thinkin of returning to IE but no tabbed browsing :o(

What am I gonna dooooooooo? :o)

Ian Edmont
 
Oops I did that and mistakenly copied a ' .
How do I EDIT/DELETE an entry in about:config ?
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No idea... I don't think you can edit or delete them easily. I'd just
create a new one without the ' mark and Firefox will just ignore the bad
one anyway and use the good one.
 
Good alternative is Opera but many sites don't display correctly?!?!?

I'm thinkin of returning to IE but no tabbed browsing :o(

What am I gonna dooooooooo? :o)

Ian Edmont
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I use Firefox without tabs anyway, I used to love them, but now I find
them just more of a nuisance, so for me lack of tabs is not an issue.
If you have to use IE then one of the IE based browsers might be ok,
i.e., Maxthon and so on.
 
No idea... I don't think you can edit or delete them easily. I'd just
create a new one without the ' mark and Firefox will just ignore the bad
one anyway and use the good one.
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It's ok
Edited it in prefs.js
It works for Seamonkey too.
 
Kerodo said:
Good alternative is Opera but many sites don't display correctly?!?!?

I'm thinkin of returning to IE but no tabbed browsing :o(

What am I gonna dooooooooo? :o)

Ian Edmont


Kerodo said:
I use Firefox without tabs anyway, I used to love them, but now I find
them just more of a nuisance, so for me lack of tabs is not an issue.
If you have to use IE then one of the IE based browsers might be ok,
i.e., Maxthon and so on.
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I used to use Avant and tried it again recently but my firewall reports it
as "dialling out" to google-sydicate or something or other which concerned
me somewhat so uninstalled.

I've just re-installed and it's not reporting that now so maybe I should
give it a whirl.

Also just downloaded K-Meleon to try again.

Thanks.

Ian Edmont.
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What's the difference between Firefox and Seamonkey Jim apart from Seamonkey
being a suite of apps?

Why would you use Firefox over an above Seamonkey I suppose is what I'm
asking?

Thanks.

Ian Edmont.
 
Also just downloaded K-Meleon to try again.
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I kinda liked K-Meleon even though it didn't seem as easily configurable
as Firefox. Seems good though. I also tried the SeaMonkey 1.0 with a
browser only install and it wasn't bad either. It stayed around 60mb
ram use without growing unreasonable high. Has the fast loader thing
also. Kinda like Firefox with less extensions and skins etc.
 
Kerodo said:
I kinda liked K-Meleon even though it didn't seem as easily configurable
as Firefox. Seems good though. I also tried the SeaMonkey 1.0 with a
browser only install and it wasn't bad either. It stayed around 60mb
ram use without growing unreasonable high. Has the fast loader thing
also. Kinda like Firefox with less extensions and skins etc.
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How r u measuring RAM usage Kerodo ... Windows Task Manager?
 
How r u measuring RAM usage Kerodo ... Windows Task Manager?
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Yep, just viewing normal ram usage in Task Manager. I used to watch
Peak Ram Usage as well as Virtual and so on. At one point, K-Meleon hit
260mb Peak Ram use. That's when I stopped using it. I've never seen
Firefox or SeaMonkey do anything like that. But again, in FF and SM I
use windows only, no tabs. So that may account for my better results
where others have trouble. I don't really put much of a strain on them
without tabs..
 
Yep, just viewing normal ram usage in Task Manager. I used to watch
Peak Ram Usage as well as Virtual and so on. At one point, K-Meleon hit
260mb Peak Ram use. That's when I stopped using it. I've never seen
Firefox or SeaMonkey do anything like that. But again, in FF and SM I
use windows only, no tabs. So that may account for my better results
where others have trouble. I don't really put much of a strain on them
without tabs..
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FF here is at about 33 MB. Is that about right I wonder?
 
FF here is at about 33 MB. Is that about right I wonder?
Whoops ... no it's now down to 12 and I havent done anything ... why would
that be?
 
FF here is at about 33 MB. Is that about right I wonder?
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That seems pretty good. Here it slowly climbs up to around 60mb and
then stays there, more or less, even after days of constant use. I read
somewhere that it's ram usage depends on how much ram you have
installed. It will try to cache pages to get that fast back/forward
action and it sets the number cached according to how much ram you have
installed. I have 512mb here on an older 1 gig machine. But I never
see it rise above 60mb, so I'm happy.
 
What's the difference between Firefox and Seamonkey Jim apart from Seamonkey
being a suite of apps?

Why would you use Firefox over an above Seamonkey I suppose is what I'm
asking?

Thanks.

Ian Edmont.
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I moved to Firefox and Thunderbird on the tidal wave of enthusiasm when IE
and OE were the great satans of the web.
I use Netlaunch to open/close both of them and my newsreader when connecting
to the internet.
For a time I tried Avant browser because some sites did not render well, but
dumped that as things got better.
I had tried Netscape and Mozilla suite years ago, but didn't like them at
the time for reasons I forget.
When Seamonkey came out I gave it a try, 'cos I'll try anything once.
It does exactly the same as FF + TB with much less drain on memory, far
fewer extensions (3 in my case) and far easier integration.
I still use Netlaunch as I also use Dialog for newsreading (TB and SM are
not good at news)
To be frank I still do not allow SM to clear my mail from the server in case
I decide at some future date to go back to TB; so both SM and TB have
identical mail files.
At the moment SeaMonkey is winning.
I used to be uncertain, but now I'm not so sure.
 
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