Meet The New Fox

Mozilla is getting ready for the new version of the hugely popular web browser that will be called Firefox 4 and has released the first beta version for the new edition of the browser. There are a few aesthetic changes in the new version of the browser such as the tabs that have been pushed up where the Menu bar originally was, much like in Opera and Chrome browsers.  The Menu bar instead been transformed into a drop-down menu on the upper left corner of the user interface (UI) labeled as ‘Firefox’. This feature was first seen with Chrome having a single button for their drop-down menu and later Opera used this feature and put up their Opera button on upper left hand corner, an idea which the newest edition of Firefox has borrowed. These changes will surely help by neatly arranging the menu items in one place for quicker access, thereby reducing the clutter in UI and make the new version more visually enhancing.

Firefox memory leak problem solved

I had talked about computer starting to lag after sometime when using Firefox over a long time. The reason is that Firefox has a problem of memory leaks. Read here for more. And I have also posted a couple of solutions for those facing this problem. Other than the link given above, you can check easy solutions here and here. This was a problem for those on Firefox versions 3.5 and earlier. Yes, you heard it right! That was a problem and it has been cleared off in their current Firefox 3.6.

Optimizing Firefox

We have seen how to optimize Firefox to reduce Firefox memory usage the manual way and to speed up Firefox automatically using FireTune. There is one more nice little application that will optimize both Firefox as well as Firebird and is therefore named as Mozilla Optimizer.

This software is good enough to be used on latest Firefox. Just select your browser and the action you want to do and its done. Easy and quick!

Its made and maintained by the guys at www.computerbase.de
You can download it from their site. Alternatively you can also download it from the link given below

Click here to download

Incase you want to try FireTune, a similar software you can visit here

Speed up Firefox

We have already seen how to reduce Firefox memory usage in our previous post. That can indeed solve the memory hogging problem of Firefox, but it involves manually tweaking about:config settings and that can be quite a complicated job for a novice user. Also if you have noticed, that configuration page is similar to the windows registry and tweaking them wrong can certainly be bad for your browser. Therefore for faster and easy optimization of these settings to speed up Firefox, we have a small but efficient software named FireTune. The version we have here is FireTune v 1.2.0 and it works with all versions of Firefox.

 

Reduce firefox memory usage

Firefox has been gaining popularity by the day and it holds a considerable market share when it comes to the battle of the browsers. They key to Firefox's popularity is its speed, security, ease of use, and of course the ever useful add-ons. While Firefox has made tremendous improvements in terms of features, security and speed, it has repeatedly failed in addressing a major issue, that of memory leak.