peter_m
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Firefox 3.0 & memory usage
Is it me or is FireFox 3.0 still heavy onthe memory usage????
I still find IE7 uses less ram, or is it just me? Has anyone noticed this?
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Grail Knight
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| Fx v3 memory usage is way down compared to Fx v2 IMO.
I do not really think about it all that often as I have 2gb ram on my notebook and 3gb in the desktop and memory is there to be used.
IE is part of the OS so who knows how much it is really using.
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timcuth
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Re: Tweaking for Fun/Speed - Fx v3 Series
Here is a tweak for fun (not speed - it is said to cause a performance hit) that I found on Life Hacker. It is supposed to make FF 3 display pictures with "richer" colors.
gfx.color_management.enabled = true (default is false)
If anyone tries it, let me know what you think. I have it set to true and photos do look great, but it is hard to compare between changing the setting, restarting FF, and going back to a picture.
Tim
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Grail Knight
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| Thanks. I used this in the past and noticed a slight difference but was using Adobe Photoshop to handle color management based on this comment below from MoZine.org.
A Caveat though;
quote:
* Without a properly calibrated monitor and a correct color profile, color management may actually make colors look worse.
»kb.mozillazine.org/Gfx.color_man···.enabled
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Graystoke
join:2006-03-24
Stockton, CA
 ·AT&T U-Verse
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Hope this isn't a dumb question. When I open about:config, to follow the speed tweaks posted by Grail Knight, there is nothing listed under "config.trim", or "content." anything. Everything else is there. Is this normal? Do I have to set up a new user.js file and enter them there? |
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Grail Knight
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there is nothing listed under "config.trim", or "content." anything. Everything else is there. Is this normal?
That is normal. These items will be added once you have the user.js in your Profile Folder and restart Fx.
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Do I have to set up a new user.js file and enter them there?
If you have the user.js from Fx v2 series you can copy it to the Fx v3 Profile and edit it changing any entries to Fx v3 tweak values.
It is faster IMO to just to create a new user.js file and copy the tweaks into it and place it into the Fx v3 folder.
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DataDoc
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I tried gfx.color_management.enabled = true and for my 7 yr old PC it was too much of a performance hit.
(Edited for clarity.) |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Tried what? All of the tweaks or just a few? |
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jmorlan
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| said by Grail Knight  :Tried what? All of the tweaks or just a few? I'm pretty sure DataDoc was talking about:
gfx.color_management.enabled = true (default is false)
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | Ya I see that now.
Long day here. Thanks.. |
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Graystoke
join:2006-03-24
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Thank you Grail Knight. Sorry for taking so long to get around to thanking you. It was our 25th wedding anniversary, and my wife said we are going out of town for a week, and no computers. And I always agree (well almost always) with "She Who Must Be Obeyed".  |
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31 | You are welcome.
Enjoy! |
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