Tech Tip of the Week

Make Firefox run better

Firefox is a great browser, but it’s a memory hog. Here are a few tips to help you make Firefox use less memory and run more efficiently.

• Uninstall any extensions that you are not using.
• Disable the ‘Page Saving’ feature. This feature saves a copy of every page you visit in memory. It helps the browser to load pages that you already visited faster, but it can use a lot of memory.
• In the URL field type “about:config”

In the filter field type, “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers”

Change the value to “0”

• If you have several downloads listed in the Download area clear them out.
• From the Tool menu, select Downloads

  Press the ‘Clean Up’ button

• If you’re having problems with Firefox starting correctly, try starting it in ‘Safe Mode’.
  This mode prevents any extensions or themes from loading. From the Run... command, type “firefox.exe -safe-mode”