Speed up Firefox 3.x

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Aug 18, 2007
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I just ran this on two installs of Firefox, it works like a dream.

Increase Firefox 3.* Performance by Optimizing the SQLite Databases [Windows, Linux and Mac OSX] ~ Web Upd8

Look for this section about halfway down
-For Windows

Download IniFox which containts 2 files and extact the archive in the Firefox profile folder. The Firefox profile folder is in the following location:

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Download software, extract the two files to your profile folder (they show the paths for various Windows OSes) and then run the .bat file.

Instructions for Linux and Mac too.
 
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Thanks guerilla. I've been thinking about switching to older versions of firefox or maybe safari or opera because it can get slow as hell sometimes. I'll give this fix a chance.
 
Nice find, guerilla! Firefox is using about 1/3 of the resources it usually uses.

+rep
 
I wonder if this'll help with shutdown time. Sometimes I want to shutdown and open back up to reclaim some memory but FF has been slow shutting down since FF3. I figure it's because it's saving bookmarks and other stuff. If so this should still help, no? +rep grilla
 
riddarhusetgal said:
Yeah and you know who really needs more info about us...
Google’s User Data Empire : Slightly Shady SEO
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Chome been out for a while (first stable release Dec 2008) and it's open source. If there where this paranoid amount of data gathering going on, someone would have released there own version of Chrome. It's probably not doing anything worse than any other browser out there.

Edit: There's a small section on the Chromes Wikipedia page about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Usage_tracking
 
LogicFlux said:
I wonder if this'll help with shutdown time. Sometimes I want to shutdown and open back up to reclaim some memory but FF has been slow shutting down since FF3. I figure it's because it's saving bookmarks and other stuff. If so this should still help, no? +rep grilla
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All it does is clean and defrag the databases. My open time has gotten at least twice as fast, and my memory footprint is about 40% lower.

I've been running FF with upgrades on this particular PC for 3+ years.
 
Really, it's an easy tweek that makes a noticeable difference in performance. I think I'm seeing about the same increases. Thanks for the share guerrilla.
 
+rep, just ran it on my mac seems to be working perfect, FF was real slow before start up and shut down now it at least twice as fast maybe more thanks for that sweet lil trick
 
I wish I could run Firefox on my Mac to take advantage of the plugins but it's slow as shit compared to Safari. However, Safari hangs whenever you fucks post animated gifs, so it's not all gravy. In fact, whenever I try and load Firefox on Windows machines sometimes it just doesn't fucking load, so I double click and wait 20 seconds, still nothing so I double click again and 30 seconds later there are 3 instances of FF loaded. Why is it so hard to make a decent, quick browser? I'm not a coder so maybe I'm just a fucking idiot, but I thought building a browser would be a straight forward process by now?
 
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