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- indy2kro, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1For Firefox 3 you need to use the updated version: http://blog.bubble.ro/minimizetotray-extension-for ...
- Continuum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3With how many resources Firefox takes up (5 tabs open and 66 mb of ram used) why would I want to keep this open?
Fix the memory leaks and resource issues and then I'll keep it open all the time.
Until then, not a chance. - firelion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0haha yea firefox 1.5 sucks. one website made it take up 75% of my resources
- ihate2regist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i'd love it TDB would hide in the tray, I can digg it
- helix400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy crap! Our extension made digg. I better start answering all the tech support emails I'm sure to get. :)
- malhtiek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This has been out forever. Minimizing Thunderbird makes sense because you will only have one window open at a time. But Firefox would just eat up RAM sitting in the tray.
- FlyingLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i'm guessing this is windows only...
-llama (the flying one) - d0rk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i'll stick with TrayIt! for ALL my apps.
http://www.teamcti.com/trayit/trayit.htm - ctheory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well if it's yours, helix, cheers to you. Good work, nonetheless.
- ctheory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"With how many resources Firefox takes up (5 tabs open and 66 mb of ram used) why would I want to keep this open?
Fix the memory leaks and resource issues and then I'll keep it open all the time.
Until then, not a chance."
I can agree there. I was always very happy with firefox being thin, and capable. Now it's becoming bloated. I really hope they fix some of the issues.
Especially that one that makes my FF crash non-stop, after crashing once. - jump4jay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is a good extension that has been around for a long long time ( no digg)... but I'd have to agree d0rk (never thought I'd be typing that out when I woke up today!!) about TrayIt, works with everything.
- redsrule2500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0tray it....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1whats the point?
im not worried about "Accidently" closing firefox.
if it does nothing to reduce resources, then im lost. - bsoric, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1For those Linux users, theres a KDE app called Ksystray or something, that lets you do this with any window, I use it with thunderbird.
It works with KDE and GNOME, equally well (In my opinion) - helix400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0erissiva...system file dependencies? Huh? All that is required is a Mozilla app. If you've got that, you've already got everything needed to make the extension work.
- yodandy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yayyy, now i can accidentally forget what the hell is hogging up my resources because now its even easier to not notice you left firefox open with 2 tabs and a few pictures and thats whats killing your fps in your favorite game...
- helix400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I didn't write the underlying code. That was Mook's doing. I just took over lots of the support, bug reporting, a few bug fixes, options menu, Sunbird/Nvu support, and the translation for 23 languages. But the core of it, wow, it still confuses me at times.
On a side note, the feature we're working on most is to have the Mozilla app automatically start in the tray and stay there in a persistant fashion. This hopefully will really help out with Thunderbird, so you can essentially have your computer boot up with the TB already loaded waiting for new emails. Unfortunately, it is incredibly difficult to code as an extension. - erissiva, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Old.
Plus...Too many system file dependencies. - yodarocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I could not get the extension to install in Thunderbird (version 1.07 Win XP). I like the idea and I hope that it can progress. I will keep checking up on it from time to time.
Extensions like this one are what keeps me using Mozilla software. I love the community! - gnelson90, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There is a nice little setting that shrinks the memory consumed when you minimize the window. It works well, try it.
From: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=354828
Memory usage upon minimize
There is a pref that enables trimming Firefox memory usage when you minimize all Firefox windows. This pref is for Windows only. To enable it, set config.trim_on_minimize to true using about:config. - skunkman62, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Holy crap! Our extension made digg. I better start answering all the tech support emails I'm sure to get. :)
- reflous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like it --- so where is the linux version!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ahaha, that'S coool.
- flake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To me it's annoying to have extra stuff in the tray
- kentmartin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Harrumph - windows only which is a real pity.
If you are a gnome/kde user, I recommend 'alltray' http://alltray.sourceforge.net, and it apparently works very well. Unfortunately xfce is my current desktop of choice and, to quote the author of alltray:
"for xfce alltray uses the old und buggy reparent stuff. only for gnome and kde alltray use some better mechanism. xfce will probably never ever be supported (lack of motivation and time)"
That being said, I use alltray, but I get all sorts of weird focus issues when a 'trayed' app pops up a child window.
I mainly want to minimize thunderbird and firefox to tray - if anyone has any bright suggestions, I am more than happy to hear them. - DansFloyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it should work... make sure you downloaded the correct version, It works for the new 1.5 RC2 (which i use)
- NoonienSoong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this extension is soo old. and like mossfly suggests powermenu works great, is small, and free.
i bet we will have someone digg powermenu soon. - jwcorder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Powerful extension"? My ass. Hate to see what an actual useful extension is called.
- jpbleuu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice i was actually looking for an extension to do this for thunderbird yesterday
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1MAC VERSION:
Press the yellow minimize button. or cmd + M= or cmd +H - mindsinker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0use trayit! its mas gooder.
- CreamyPoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I find TaskSwitchXP much more useful http://www.ntwind.com/taskswitchxp/ , it's an alt+tab replacement that has the ability to minimize any window or app to tray just by rightclicking the minimize button. Also, it uses far less memory than powermenu or trayit, about 300-700k.
- MossFly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Powermenu.... anyone?
- kamizu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0im surprised none of the opera fanboys mentioned it, so i will:
opera had that feature for ages
besides, hiding such a bloated ram-eating browser just makes it worse. you're more likely to forget it's there and later curse your PC for running so slow... - MAG1CO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not so handy for firefox but im using it with Thunderbird which is pretty darn handy - nice one,
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0oooo a Powerful Extension....
- phildog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've used http://www.toggle.com/products/minimize/ but I'll try TrayIt as well
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This has been around since the dawn of the net hehe...come on guys its old as...
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