Hyper Tuning Firefox: A Blogger's Guide
Published March 02, 2006
The guide proceeds to go into six key areas to CUSTOMIZE not only the browser but the cache and how your operating system interfaces with Firefox.
Here is one of the six tips, for example:
TIP 1. Adjust the Memory Cache
Firefox is supposed to dynamically release memory from its RAM cache to other Windows applications as needed. Firefox power users recommend limiting the memory cache using the Configuration Console. This frees up memory for other apps, speeding up everything to a greater or a lesser extent, depending on your machine and the applications you run. Here's how the trick works:Step 1. Type about:config into Firefox's Address Bar and press Enter.
Step 2. Right-click any row, then click New, Integer. Type or paste the following preference name into the dialog box that appears (this is a hidden preference that doesn't exist in the Configuration Console until you create it): browser. cache.memory.capacity
Step 3. Click OK, then enter the following integer number into the next dialog box, representing 16 MB of RAM for the cache: 16000
Step 4. Click OK to close the dialog box, then close all instances of
Firefox and restart it.
The tips translate information from software engineering buzzwords that abound in an open source environment and render it into simple step by step instructions.
The other slick thing is that they have included some freeware optimization software to get the user up to a basic level so that all the tips can be optimized. Again with the blogger in mind, full instructions on how to use the optimization software and TUNE for your OWN PC configuration and Internet access speed.
If you have downloaded FireFox and it is still in it's vanilla configuration and you are not a computer geek, this guide is well worth the investment.
Hyper Tuning Firefox: A Blogger's Guide is written in PDF format and can be found on the OpenWeb or by doing a search on the publication's name.
- Hyper Tuning Firefox: A Blogger's Guide
- Published: March 02, 2006
- Type: Review
- Section: Sci/Tech
- Filed Under: Sci/Tech: Blogging, Sci/Tech: Internet, Sci/Tech: Software
- Writer: Z.Z. Bachman
- Z.Z. Bachman's BC Writer page
- Z.Z. Bachman's personal site
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I must say that I'm more partial to Apple's Safari and the Opera browser.
you have to buy this? laugh
Whoever wrote that guide should be ashamed of themselves!
Get the info from the web instead...its FREELY available :p
hi -- The guide which was reviewed contains value to some users (perhaps not yourself) and the user decides to purchase or not based on the value of the contents and it's intented objective to enhance his or hers browser performance. You know like "Pro Choice". You don't have to buy anything you don't want to buy. (See the Amazon books associated with the review. You don't have to buy those either.) If spending a few bucks helps get you increased browser performance from changes that have been consolidated and organized in one place for the user then what is the issue?
The issue is conning any of the masses into buying crap, ignorance is not to be exploited by any means. Why pay for something rather than open your mind to new possibilities? Those that say otherwise are just trying to line their pockets.
Unlike you geeks, some people don't spend 60 hours a week on the internet searching for this crap. Paying 10 dollars for a book is like paying to have more free time. Its not exploiting anyone, its just how the economy works.
oh yeah Firefox, we spend 60 hours a week looking up a book. stfu we hsve lives to and are way more computer literate than u.
This made the front page of Digg. Prepare to be bombarded if it hasn't already happened
What are the other five tips?
Or you could just go to this site and read lots of tips: Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks
nice to have it all in one place though...
This was actually pretty good.... Saved me some time. There was more in there than just the usual pipelining tweaks and such! They even included some freeware to get you started but the other conversion instructions and how to optimize XP, disc and memory caching were pretty good and as they said written for NON Geeks..! All in one place. For the Non Geek types this is good. If you are a computer geek you probably already know a lot of this stuff. Sort of like a basic guide for tunining firefox.
This is a good book--though a little outdated now. It does a good job of showing how Firefox actually works. It is not just a collection of about:config tweaks. It teaches a user how to create themes extensions and troubleshoot Firefox issues. Something a lot of Firefox users don't know how to do.
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Important guide - thanking for pointing it out:)