Monitor Everything with StatusbarEx

Comments (4) · April 7, 2008 at 6:18 am · Firefox Settings

The web browser is a handy thing to have your monitoring tools in because it is open a lot of the time, and so then the information is always there and in your face. One of the monitoring tools that has caught my eye the most these days is StatusbarEx. It will show you a little ‘bit of everything.

It shows tons of useful information right inside of your Firefox status bar. You can find out the memory usage (of the system and Firefox), the network speed, CPU details and more. You can also select which details you would like to have shown and the text color that it uses to do so.

As you can tell from the above screenshot - you’ll also look like a real geek when doing so (which is what we love to do) and impress your non-geeky friends. How many add-ons can do that?

Fix for Firefox Memory Problems?

Comments (3) · December 10, 2007 at 10:35 am · Firefox Settings, Resources

Firefox uses a lot of RAM. It is the number one complaint about this otherwise awesome web browser. So what can you do to solve this issue? Well there are a few rumored fixed out there in the wild.

Here is the nitty-gritty about:config solution to the problem:

• Open up about:config by typing it into your Firefox address bar.
• Right-click, go to new and then integer and name it this: browser.cache.memory.capacity
• For the integer value, enter in 15000 if you have 512MB to 1GB of RAM. For those with less (between 128MB to 512MB), try a value of 5000.  You’re done!

Then all you should need to restart Firefox for it to take effect.

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Install Firefox in the RAM

Comments (2) · September 25, 2006 at 8:19 am · Firefox Hacks

It might seem like more trouble than it is worth, but this tutorial will show you how to get Mozilla Firefox installed and running in your RAM rather than from your hard drive. After reading through the step by step process, it seems simple enough. I guess I’m not sure how much of an advantage you are really going to see though.

+ Learn to speed up Firefox by installing and running it in your RAM!