Firefox Memory Problem Solved? Or, Rather, Workaround For Firefox 4, Others!

So I was telling you about the problems I had with ever increasing memory consumption in my Firefox 4.

I thought Memory Fox was going to solve the problem and I installed it. However, the problem is still there. With Memory Fox, the memory gets apparently reduced, however the responsiveness of the system is still not great after a while.



So I kept on searching, and found a better solution, here at Browser.sessionhistory.max total viewers.

It turns out that Firefox will by default automatically adjust the number of history pages PER TAB. The adjustment is such that for most of the modern computers, you will store 8 history pages PER TAB. This is clearly not appropriate for people like me who like to have upwards of 20 tabs up in Firefox.

The solution/workaround is:

Type about:config in your Firefox address bar.

Scroll down until you find the variable Browser.sessionhistory.max total viewers. You will probably find the value of (-1), which is automatic adjustment to up to 8.

Right click on the value and modify to 0 or 1.

This will be the number of history pages per firefox tab that you will store. I have used 1 for a couple of days now and Firefox worked much better than with Memory Fox, yet, the memory consumption is still outrageous after a couple days.

You can play around with this number, and let me know your situation, and how the fix worked for you.


Just leave a comment below.

firefox 4 search box not working -suggestions -searchbox -drop -map

This is the exact search I did to find out what to do when my search bar in new firefox 4 was not operating. The solution was, for me, for now:

cor-el: You can try to delete search.sqlite and search.json in the Firefox Profile Folder See also: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Search_Bar ... Read more... 2 out of 2 people found this reply helpful

Taken straight from http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/763904 The location of your firefox profile folder may vary, but it usually ends with .default Comment below if this helped ya.

Firefox 4 Status Bar Restored

Frustrating when upgrading to Firefox 4 and, for simplified user interface/other reasons, suddenly the status bar is missing. Find a brilliant solution below...

[UPDATE: The next day... see below]

Frustrating when upgrading to Firefox 4 and, for simplified user interface/other reasons, suddenly the status bar is missing.

Especially critical when you are using Firefox for work!

Fortunately, there is a solution Firefox addon status-4-evar. (let me know if the link doesn't work for you, it is a https)

*** STATUS-4-EVAR !!! ***

A rave review by Noodnik @ addons.mozilla.org:

Yessss!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars by Noodnik on April 7, 2011 #

Thank you a lot, I was really missing the status bar!

[UPDATE, The next day...] Unfortunately, the very next day I saw something unusual on the bottom right of the Firefox 4 window, and it didn't look like status-4-evar at all. Status-4-Evar statusbar was gone. As were all my visual results that I saw there. Disable/Enable status-4-evar did not work. Neither did uninstall/reinstall status-4-evar extension work... Oh well... Come to think of it, upgrading Firefox is not much different from upgrading Microsoft Windows. MS will change the default locations of documents, user data, etcetera... and Firefox will change the things that I like... Come to think of it, Firefox 3.?.15 was the last version that worked good for me.. I can still downgrade! [UPDATE, The same day...] Found out that for some reason, probably related to the RAM disk I am using, most of my extensions were wiped out, but not status-4-evar. So that is why I thought status-4-evar did not work. It apparently did, if there simply was something to stick in it?! Backed up my settings from a few days back. Lost a few tabs, but gained my beloved status bar, as well as some much missed buttons... So far so good. The saga may continue. Stay tuned. Comment, subscribe to the blog for more! COMMENT if you have similar issues. We'll find the solutions somehow.