Firefox performance slowing down? I am a Firefox user by choice, and being the owner of AdsTrek, a traffic exchange, I’m a heavy surfer, with several exchanges being surfed at once. I’ve always had the problem of decreased performance in Firefox after surfing for an hour or so, which required shutting down and restarting the application. You may experienced a similar problem and if that is the case there is an easy fix. I’ve solved this issue and the fix is simple. This will work as long as you do not require the browser to record surfing history, or need off line storage of any kind. Go into preferences, privacy and on the History tab, remove the check in the keep my history tab, or just set it to zero. Additionally, under the advanced tab, set off line storage to use zero MB of space for the cache. This solution works like a charm under Windows or Linux operating systems. I can now keep Firefox open and working 24 hours a day if I so choose, with no performance deterioration. Let me know if this works for you, and happy surfing.
Tags: Firefox Tips
September 21, 2009 at 7:48 pm |
As an avid surfer, I already knew this from my personal discoveries along the way. I never thought that I should make a post about it. At some point I would have added it to my blog, but hey, since you already did, thats ok too.
Good advice for any beginner surfers out there that are having these issues.
Do you have any pointers besides this?
I’ve had to use the plugin reloadevery to restart some surfing sessions that I leave active when I’m not at home. Some sites work with it, some do not. But most autosurf programs are able to handle the reload script.
September 21, 2009 at 9:00 pm |
I also use reloadevery and find it very useful. Also Tab Mix Plus has a handy auto tab advance feature I find useful surfing manual exchanges. The recent rewrite of reloadevery has made it compatible with Tab Mix Plus, even though there is still a warning to disable when you install Tab Mix Plus.
November 23, 2009 at 11:18 pm |
^Ov0^ I’ll be darned, i was running firefox with no history, as it should be for performance, but forgot to check the network tab under advanced for cache settings.
i’ve been experiencing a lot of issues with firefox, and for the life of me, could not figure out why. I guess that was it.
November 24, 2009 at 1:33 am |
Yes, I find it best to reduce the cache to zero. The performance increase is great.