Firefox kadang terasa sangat berat ketika dipakai. Berikut ini ada beberapa langkah yang bisa membuat para pemakai firefox merasa lebih nyaman. Ini kutipan dari beberapa site yang kemudian melakukan trial and error :
1. Don’t use adblock- uninstall it and use adblock plus.
2. Use fewer extensions.
3. Make firefox give up memory when minimized and take longer to un-minimize: go to about:config. Right click on blankness and tell it to make a new boolean. Call it config.trim_on_minimize , set it to true.
4. Disable prefetch: go to about:config. Search for prefetch, you’ll find network.prefetch-next. Double click it to turn it false if it is on.
5. Disable fast back and forward : about:config, search for viewers, find browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers, set it to 0 to disable fast back and forward. Limit the memory cache: about:config, new integer, browser.cache.memory.capacity, set it to the memory in KB you want to limit the memory cache to.
6. Don’t use the firefox preloader.
7. Once in a while, close the browser completely and re-open it.
8. Support the adult industry and buy some DVDs instead of opening so many images in your browser
Berikut ini yang agak sedikit lebih ekstrim….
1. type about:config in your firefox address bar
2. in the filter box, type in ‘prefetch’.
3. Click on the item that appears, and select ‘toggle’ if it is set to true. The desired setting is ‘false’
4. Type in ’sessionhistory’ in filter bar.
5. Change ‘browser.sessionhistory.max_entries’ value to 10 by right clicking and selecting ‘modify’
6. Change ‘browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers’ to 1, the same way.
7. If you are using ’session manager’, open up the session manager options.
8. On the ‘General’ tab, make sure that it is set to ‘discard current session’ at shutdown.
9. On the ‘Undo Close’ tab, set the remembered tabs to 10, unless you have a reason to set it higher.
10. Make absolutely certain that the ‘persistence’ item is set to never, otherwise it will begin to get more and more bloated over time.
11. If you are using adblock, remove adblock, after exporting your filter list, and install adblock plus, then import your exported filters.
12. If you are using the dreaded ‘tab browser extension’, uninstall it and change to Tab Mix Plus.
13. If you are using both tab mix plus and session manager, turn off the session handling components of tab mix plus to avoid conflict.
14. If you are on KDE, and have foolishly installed gtk2-engines-gtk-qt get rid of the damned thing, apt-get remove –purge gtk2-engines-gtk-qt instantly. If you insist on using it, please don’t waste anyone’s time on forums or irc asking for support about slow or buggy firefix issues. [hint - you can install it, open up all your gtk based apps, which will then get the kde display settings, then remove –purge it. The settings will stick.]
