Posted by Lim on Jul 5th, 08 | Filed under
Firefox,
Tips |
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RAMBack is a Firefox extension that can clear the internal cache memory for Firefox 3, release the unuse memory space for other applications.
A lot of Firefox 2 users complain the memory usage for Firefox 2 is too high, which cause other applications to run slowly. Although Firefox 3 seems to be load faster and consume less memory, but it still can’t fully release the unuse memory. For example, closing unwanted tabs doesn’t fully recover the memory.
So, we need extension which can clear those cache memory. After install the extension, you can press the “Clear Cacher” options from the “Tools” menu.
I wonder why Firefox developer don’t include this feature in Firefox 3? Although RAMBack extension does help us to free up the unuse menory, but we still need to manually press the “Clear Cache” button. I hope that the extension author can try to make this automatic clear the cache whenver any tab being closed.
RAMBack extension
Posted by Lim on Jun 23rd, 08 | Filed under
Cool Stuff,
Firefox |
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Firefox 3 had been released at 17 June 2008. It include a lot of cool new festures. You can easily find and install new addons in Firefox 3.
I am sure most of the Firefox users will install some addons or themes. But, do you know that Firefox 3 allow users to search addons within the Addons Manager?
As you can see in the screenshot, You can browse to the Get Add-ons tab and Firefox will show some recommended addons. There is also a searchbox so that you can search your favorite addons. The searchbox allow you to search for both extensions and themes. I am not sure whether you can search plugins or not.
Posted by Lim on Feb 15th, 08 | Filed under
Firefox,
Internet,
Tutorial |
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This tutorial will discuss on how to set the limit of suggestions for the address bar. It is very annoying if the suggestion list is too long. So, we try to limit the number of suggestion URL.
Steps to follow
- Open your Firefox 3 and type about:config in the address bar and hit enter.
- Unlike Firefox 2, there is a warning message before you can enter the configuration list. Press the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button to continue.
- Type browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the Filter bar and press enter.
- Double-click the browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set the value to 3 (you can put any value, this is the maximum suggestions that Firefox 3 will gives you).
- RestartFirefox to take effect.
Below is the screenshots for both before and after the configuration change:
As you can see, the address suggestion become 3. I don’t know how they sort the suggestion list. If you want to have more control over the suggestion, you can try Autocomplete Manager.
