i tried all these tweakings before maling to this list. but no real use. waiting for mozilla developers to fix this.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:21 PM, nels kurian <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the information,anish. > > If the above doesn't solve somebody's problem.Try this > - open firefox > - In the adress bar type in "about:config" > - In the filter bar type in "ipv6" > - Double click "network.dns.disableIPv6" so that the value turns to TRUE > - Restart firefox > This will speed up firefox > > or you can try a memory optimisation technique > > http://www.thinktechno.com/2008/03/04/4-memory-reduction-tweaks-for-firefox/ > > > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:48 PM, sahab <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for your fast response >> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Anish .C <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> It is just changing the database from sqlite sqlite3. >>> >>> In previous versions Firefox stored this information in the worst >>> possible format - Mork. Format extremely complicated, barely machine >>> readable that gave the users no possibility to parse the data (for a lot of >>> laugh check out the specification on the Wikipedia page). This was finally >>> replaced in the new Firefox by SQLite - self contained, small footprint >>> database. >>> >>> Having database store your browsing data has one drawback, you have to >>> optimize the database from time to time to get rid of old, deleted data, >>> re-index the columns etc. Otherwise you keep all the junk data mixed in with >>> your real data. >>> >>> In SQLite is the statement to do this called VACUUM;. >>> >>> In my case this effectively cut the size of urlclassifier3.sqlite and >>> places.sqlite to half. Thus saving 20 MB in my memory and Firefox's speed >>> improvement was very noticeable. So have fun with the vacuum cleaner >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> anish** >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:41 PM, sahab <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Works great. Thanks. Let me know the command explanation >>>> >>>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Anish .C <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> $ for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; done >>>>> >>>>> anish** >>>>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Anish .C <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Guys try this >>>>>> >>>>>> 1. Close all firefox browsers >>>>>> 2. open a Terminal >>>>>> 3. enter the following >>>>>> $> for f in ~./mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite;do sqlite3 $f >>>>>> 'VACUUM;';done >>>>>> >>>>>> Run your browser again and check whether the issue is solved or not. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> anish** >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Shino Jacob <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I did, you can try it. >>>>>>> Another thing is firefox does have a memory leak. Memory allocated is >>>>>>> not correctly reclaimed by os. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Ashik S <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > I don't think so . :) did you go through the link i sent ? >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Miles to go before I Sleep >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Turn to Linux.................. >>>> http://sahabm.blogspot.com >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Turn to Linux.................. >> http://sahabm.blogspot.com >> >> > > > > -- > regards > nels kurian > > > > -- Miles to go before I Sleep --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
