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Pimp Your Firefox Install

posted @ Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:42 AM

Couple cool tweaks to Firefox I've gathered up (mostly from lifehacker.com) recently. Both help with the notorious memory leak behavior, as well as just general coolness.

  1. Install Tab Mix Plus.
    Simply put, it's way cool. It handles session management, and all things tab-tweak-related. It replaces the buggy and leaky SessionSaver, as well as a bunch of other tab-related extensions like LastTab and more. Spend a few minutes checking out the Tab Mix Plus options and you'll start to see how you can uninstall a bunch of your other extensions. Note: By default, TMP has some behavior I wanted to change. One is "highlighting" unread tabs in a gaudy red italics. It not only does this for newly opened non-focused tabs, but also for tabs that have an auto-refresh like CNN or GMail. NO THANKS. So you can turn that off in Display Tab options. The other odd thing is that sessions aren't set to restore automatically on load, so you go to Sessions options and enable it and set it to restore on startup.


  2. Super-Minimize! When you minimize FF, you can have it write it's memory to hard disk which has two sweet side-effects. One, free up your RAM for other apps. Two, when you de-minimize (I'd say maximize, but you may not be maximizing, just... well... de-minimizing), it ends up with a much smaller RAM profile than when you minimized. So, it's a poor man's garbage collector! This is really to do, follow these steps.



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