Well, i stopped using FF years ago, so i don't really know what's the case with it now. On Chrome i have 2 addons which makes browsing significantly faster. One is the Data Saver, which is natively built-in on mobile, can be turned on and off from the menu, it's available for desktop as an addon and although it's a thingy by Google, as i see it's available for Firefox too:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google_datasaver_for_firefox/, although it doesn't work with Quantum. The other addon called Web Boost, this i can't see for FF unfortunately.
DD shared a DNS hack some time ago, which also speeds up browsing significantly, i cannot get arsed to find the thread, but here it is on the official site:
https://1.1.1.1
https://wikihow.com/Adjust-Visual-Effects-in-Windows-8
I just disabled visual effects. Oh yeah, this is fantastic. The change isn't even that big but I can tell it's working better. Some things look a bit more "plain," but who cares. Disabling visual effects, best tip so far!
If you are running out of RAM due to FF then an extra 25Mb will only gain you a tiny amount of time.
The fact is that FF is a memory hog and scripts are only going to make this worse. Running lots of instances is going to exacerbate the situation further.
An extra 100mb likely won't get you any noticeable gain.
You may find that everything is more efficient running a few instances of FF rather than slow the system to a crawl with lots. Try with less and compare results you may be surprised with the results.
Well of course running fewer instances of FF works better, 100%. But that's not what I wanna do
So FF is a memory hog, I agree. But what makes it such a memory hog? Any good tips on what I can edit in Firefox to make it less of a memory hog but still keep it functional?
I use Firefox Portable v56 by the way.
Yes, and this reply is verbose too. You must not be in sales, as people don't read replies that long. Go make more money and get a better laptop.
I am in sales. Just made 3 sales while writing this message
Jazzc replied to you about that. But even so, this here is not a sales thread, it's a help thread. In fact I want my help threads to be long if the situation calls for it in order to deter any useless replies that waste my time.
That's because complicated software tend to have memory leaks (i.e. zombie blocks of memory that the memory garbage collector isn't told to clean up after they're not useful any more). That's not something you can fix, only the software developer can (and these are hard problems to find and fix).
That said, you have to do what you need to do to get a new pc. Go for a desktop so that it's cheaper and upgradeable. With 4GB of RAM you're just trashing your hard drive from the constant memory swapping that's happening on the background.
Thanks. Yeah I mean, I'll just do what I can with what I've got. I'm aware that I there's only so much I can do, but there are things I can do.
Already since I started this thread I disabled Indexing, I disabled System Restore, I found and disabled 2 programs that were always unnecessarily running in the background and consuming resources, and I disabled Visual Effects. That's on the Windows side. I still didn't get to hacking/editing Firefox itself.
And even though the difference in performance isn't very visible as it's small, and I'll need a few days to really be able to tell, I believe I can already see a small improvement in performance on the lap top
If you don't want to buy things, maybe automation will help you. If you have to restart the laptop by hand every 10 hrs, then maybe it's good to make it restart by itself every 6-8 hrs, by using a .bat file
I can't help you with the code, but Google will know it.
Actually... this is a great fucking advice. I'm aware of .bat files and I tried using them once for autorunning some stuff, but now that you put it that way I believe I can see a recipe to setting something up to where the lap top can get automatic restart every 12 hours for example, and upon restart it will turn on the Firefoxes I need on automatically and run the scripts automatically. This will basically ensure I never go to sleep and wake up to a lap top that's unproductive, stuck all over, and beginning for a restart.
Of course, some of the sites I use for botting require a captcha solution to start them, so I won't be able to use those on the autorun, but I can use others that have no captcha and I can see this working, absolutely.
Bro this is awesome. I would have never connected the dots. Amazing, thank you so much. When I'm done hacking Windows and Firefox, I'll probably try to implement this!
