Fed Up with Firefox...What Should I Switch To?
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Here is how I fixed Firefox's slowness and ram problem. This will require you to clear all the sites you have visited in the past. The slowness is caused by places.sqlite. My places.sqlite stored over 400,000 entries of sites i visited. Everytime you type in an url to the address bar, it searches through that file (170mb).
1. Install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817 (SQLite Manager) & restart browser
2. Tools -> Clear Recent History -> Check Browsing & Download History and clear
3. Goto SQLite Manager at Tools menu and a window will pop up. Then select places.sqlite for the (Select Profile Database). Lastly, do Database -> Compact Database
4. Goto about:config in the address bar and then type "history" into the filter. Then make the following changes
browser.history_expire_days to 30
browser.history_expire_days.mirror to 30
browser.history_expire_days_min to 10
browser.history_expire_sites to 4000
Your places.sqlite should drop to 1mb - 2mb. Mine went from 170mb to 1mb and my ram usage went from 800mb to 200mb.
1. Install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817 (SQLite Manager) & restart browser
2. Tools -> Clear Recent History -> Check Browsing & Download History and clear
3. Goto SQLite Manager at Tools menu and a window will pop up. Then select places.sqlite for the (Select Profile Database). Lastly, do Database -> Compact Database
4. Goto about:config in the address bar and then type "history" into the filter. Then make the following changes
browser.history_expire_days to 30
browser.history_expire_days.mirror to 30
browser.history_expire_days_min to 10
browser.history_expire_sites to 4000
Your places.sqlite should drop to 1mb - 2mb. Mine went from 170mb to 1mb and my ram usage went from 800mb to 200mb.
well said.. it's just one of these things you gotta accept, forget, and hope it never comes back to bite u in the ass!
Is that doing pretty much the same thing as this? That does help speed up some things, but doesn't do anything about FF constantly going unresponsive.
Increase Firefox 3.* Performance by Optimizing the SQLite Databases [Windows, Linux and Mac OSX] ~ Web Upd8
well said.. it's just one of these things you gotta accept, forget, and hope it never comes back to bite u in the ass!
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I love the art fag Mac users who suggest you should "get a new computer" to surf the internet.
If you've got issues with Firefox then I suspect it's one of two things: you have issues with your machine like not enough ram or heavy fragmentation, or, you are trying to run too many add ons... or a combination of both.
I noticed considerable slowdown and laggy startup in FF awhile back and simply went through the 20+ add ons I had installed and disabled more than half of them that I rarely or never used.
Works fine now.
If you've got issues with Firefox then I suspect it's one of two things: you have issues with your machine like not enough ram or heavy fragmentation, or, you are trying to run too many add ons... or a combination of both.
I noticed considerable slowdown and laggy startup in FF awhile back and simply went through the 20+ add ons I had installed and disabled more than half of them that I rarely or never used.
Works fine now.
Compacting the database does not delete the visited websites history. You are still searching through them when you type an url into the address bar. Firefox then caches those search result into the memory. So delete those damn entries and then compact it. Then set the browser to never collect that many entries again. Firefox's default setting is to never clear the visited websites history.
iron is gud
F11 in firefox jumps to fullscreen ... it's a badass view.
That is my problem, but I can't live without them so I just suffer through it and use iron for sites that tend to cause problems. 2 browsers open for the internet isn't such a bad thing.
My FF has been pissing me off too lately... I also use chrome.. it's been pretty reliable and fast as a backup.. it might one day become #1... but too many addons for firefox.