Firefox and IE View

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Chakolate said:
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
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See here:

<http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=354828>
The one and only "Memory usage" thread & FQA - MozillaZine Forums

Firefox Tweaks
<http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=354828#2051107>
 
Jim Scott said:
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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Excellent thanks for the reply Jim. Perhaps I should give SM a go. Thanks
for the insight.

Ian Edmont.
 
Excellent thanks for the reply Jim. Perhaps I should give SM a go. Thanks
for the insight.

Ian Edmont.
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I went from the Mozilla Suite to Sea Monkey. No hiccups and it uses my
Mozilla profile so going back is not a problem. I ran the two together
for a short while as I'd had problems with the beta version of Sea
Monkey. I'll be uninstalling Mozilla shortly as I haven't used it much
over the last two to three weeks.
 
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 Avant which uses the IE rendering engine but with tabbed
browsing and RSS feeds built in plus a lot more.
 
Create a boolean value called 'config.trim_on_minimize' and set it to
True. That should do it..
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Been using that tweak since you posted it.
True it reduces memory by 90% at first, but it creeps back up again even
with one page open (but minimized)
 
Been using that tweak since you posted it.
True it reduces memory by 90% at first, but it creeps back up again
even with one page open (but minimized)
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yabbut... It doesn't creep up any faster than before minimization, and
when the creep gets big, you can minimize again.

Chak
 
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