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- ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -3/+73How about 20+ ways your site can handle digg-effect?
- wolfing, on 03/23/2009, -4/+72LOL he thinks 99MB usage is the 'maximum' for Firefox? He should see my task manager on Monday mornings at work (since I leave my computer on with FF open)... Try 400MB!
- chingy1788, on 03/23/2009, -3/+51When you have 4GB of RAM... it doesn't matter anymore
- kkthxbye, on 03/23/2009, -1/+44Mirror - Google cache
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:HEsos5_WCskJ: ... - malanic, on 03/23/2009, -6/+42If you're going to be gone for the weekend, why don't you turn it off and save some power. Just because you may not be paying for it, doesn't mean it won't be helpful for your employer, and for the planet.
- Scruffo, on 03/23/2009, -5/+33Title grammar fail.
20+ ways to increase.. - BarryBostwick, on 03/23/2009, -2/+27Ha! 99MB usage!
My firefox is running at 1,457MB with 56 tabs open. - Yage2006, on 03/23/2009, -0/+2020+ ways to screwup your firefox installation.
- LiquidIse, on 03/23/2009, -2/+20This is why porn is so much better in video format...
- DefiniteFail, on 03/23/2009, -0/+16You sound like one of them fake testimonials people put on them rip off sites.
Just saying. - stagnate, on 03/23/2009, -1/+16Using Chrome doesn't make Firefox faster.
- ureshiidesuka, on 03/23/2009, -0/+15sounds like the beginning to so many spam emails that i receive
- Vindexus, on 03/23/2009, -1/+16Close some tabs.
- xdevit, on 03/23/2009, -0/+11Not going to say this is a bad article but.. the author should really explain why you should change those settings.. Some people may not actually want to change..
example...
Be lazy and copy from the wiki...
network.http.pipelining
HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. In HTTP 1.1, multiple requests can be sent before any responses are received. This is known as pipelining. Pipelining reduces network load and can reduce page loading times over high-latency connections, but not all servers support it. Some servers may even behave incorrectly if they receive pipelined requests. If a proxy server is not configured, this preference controls whether to attempt to use pipelining. ( http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.pipelining )
or
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
tooo high can get you banned...
ect...... - Yage2006, on 03/23/2009, -1/+12It's not an option yet. No adblock many other useful extensions.
A good adblock and customizable plugin like stylish or grease monkey are must have's for me to switch. - abcgi, on 03/23/2009, -3/+13Can't you just download Fasterfox which changes these values for you, without the danger of cocking up?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/903 ... - drufus, on 03/24/2009, -0/+9if your HD is faster than your memory, you have more pressing issues to deal with
- HolyJaw, on 03/23/2009, -2/+11http://rorr.im/digg.com/software/20_way_increase_f ...
- Rikkochet, on 03/23/2009, -3/+11God forbid he might be putting his PC into standby..
You know, so you don't:
1) Completely lose your place from Friday EOB
2) Make remoting in a pain in the ass - inactive, on 03/23/2009, -1/+8http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/legendsaber/ ...
=D - specialK16, on 03/23/2009, -3/+9500 Internal Server Error. Of course! How couldn't I think of that!
- ROBBERSwireless, on 03/23/2009, -0/+6Tried all of them on vista 3.0.7, seems to screw up facebook.com, doesn't work after applying the fixes....
- PopcornDave, on 03/24/2009, -0/+6Exactly. Foxit works wonders for doing that.
- Fhwqhgads, on 03/23/2009, -4/+10^^ sounds like George Carlin
- kevnin, on 03/23/2009, -0/+5this is a terrible article. not only is the author's english a little shaky, he suggests setting firefox's maximum memory usage to asinine levels. 8mb if you have 512mb installed in your system, and 4mb if you have 256mb! I just don't believe that the application could run with that little memory allowed.
- dragon76, on 03/24/2009, -2/+7In standby mode most computers with LCDs use less power than it would take to shutdown and restart them.
- iconnor, on 03/23/2009, -1/+6Save PDFs rather than view them inline .. no thanks!
The rest might be a good idea but inline PDF viewing is essential for quickly checking research and forms. Viewing them inline, saves you having a mess of PDFs in your download folder or desktop and then you can save what you need to keep.
Performance tuning is always about how you use the browser - it might work for the author but if your usage varies it might just mess up your experience. - tymme, on 03/24/2009, -0/+5Yeah, I can't figure out why memory usage goes through the roof with 50 tabs & 200 add-ons loaded.
I don't know why my PC runs so slow with 50 different active viruses and malware infections, either... guess I'll blame it on my OS. - TheKitchenSinkX, on 03/24/2009, -0/+5I have 2GB of ram total, and if I leave FF open for a like a day with a good 40 tabs like I usually do, it grows in excess of 1 GB.
- JigoroKano, on 03/24/2009, -0/+5Even better, just open them in an external application, preferably something not made by Adobe.
- solidcube, on 03/23/2009, -0/+5Looks like they'd be much better served reinventing some wheels regarding loadbalancing.
- antdude, on 03/23/2009, -0/+5http://rorr.im/digg.com/software/20_way_increase_f ...
- Huevoos, on 03/24/2009, -0/+4http://digg.com/design/Surviving_the_Digg_Effect
- easternguy, on 03/24/2009, -0/+4Three words: TURN ... OFF ... FLASH.
Seriously. First, I used Opera all the time, but found it would bog down after awhile, even after closing all pages. I switched to Firefox, found the same thing. I tried a number of things. Finally I disabled plugins in Opera, so flash wouldn't load. My CPU load stayed low, and my laptop stayed fast.
Now, I use Opera with plugins disabled, and fire up firefox the odd time I want to see a flash page. Kind of a very crude browser process sandboxing. I can't wait for OSX Chrome, which will do all this for me. - inactive, on 03/24/2009, -0/+4Yeah I love how the first half of his article can be taken care of by the Fasterfox plugin he recommends later. It's the same ***** as those news articles that go and quote people and sure as ***** there's the ***** video of them saying it all at the bottom that I'd rather have watched but I didn't because I read the ***** text already!
- inactive, on 03/24/2009, -1/+5No that's normal - it's the new Facebook look
- Vindexus, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4Mirror
(For those who search with ctrl+f) - deboerpa, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4The article isn't much better.
- inactive, on 03/24/2009, -0/+4Thumb up for porn
- shantismurf, on 03/23/2009, -0/+4The website is called "stayupdate.com" what really were you expecting?
- jec68, on 03/23/2009, -2/+6increasing your firefox speed is FORBIDDEN!
- MicrosoftBob, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3I've always been curious as to what people are doing with so many tabs open.
- xiphrex, on 03/24/2009, -1/+4I agree but I like to do it another way.
I use firefox with the plugin "Flashblock" - it replaces all flash instances on any page with a clickable box, so that if you want to view the flash, just click it and then it will load.
Much easier to watch flash stuff when you want to :D - ethos101, on 03/23/2009, -2/+5You have the memory, why not use it? That's why I got 2 gigs. I want to use it.
If you need more, the sticks are super cheap these days.
If you have an older computer you should be opening 1 or 2 tabs at a time. Common sense. (Those forward and back buttons are useful for that).
The default settings are that way for a good reason. As for the others, good ideas but to have everyone go messing with their settings is a little too far. - CrasyMike, on 03/23/2009, -0/+3Money?
- rossisdead, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3My cat fell asleep on the F1 key over the weekend. I woke up to find thousands of Firefox Help tabs open. It was using about a gig and a half of memory.
- vidar808, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3It makes firefox eat your processor instead of ram. What is the point? If you had a great processor and no ram maybe it would be useful.
- Meocross, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3Why must you dweebs crash every site you post on digg? its becoming a real inconvenience
- retral, on 03/24/2009, -0/+3congratulations on taking a screenshot of an error message..
- staeiou, on 03/24/2009, -1/+4That just tells Firefox to use your hard disk instead of your ram - useful if you need that ram for other programs, but it actually makes Firefox slower if your hard drive is slower than your memory.
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