After upgrading to Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, I needed a clean Firefox. Firefox is my most-used program, and I use it since the very beginning (that is since I quit using some obscure -and since discontinued- program I had found to replace IE 5, and moved to the new ‘unbloated/browser only’ part of the mozilla suite, then called phoenix ). I use many extensions, tweaked the user.prefs and so on, but I needed a clean base so:
- I use Fx 2.0.0.3, upgraded from 2.0.0.1 as I switched to Feisty. YMMMV
- less and less Fx extensions are producing memory leaks. But check in any case.
- I started Fx in safe mode and disabled extensions / add-ons (first tick), then reinstalled the following extensions:
- All-in-One sidebar 0.7.1 (0.7.2b2 is available)
- custom buttons 0.0.1.2 (because I use URL-Tools 0.4)
- Show Anchors 1.51
- looked at but did not install (yet!) Copy Plain Text 0.3.3 (Jeremy Gillick created so many cool extensions)
- del.icio.us 1.2 to have a « bookmark this » button (NOT the *new* firefox bookmarks extension 1.5.29, which messes all Fx bookmarks)
- DownThemAll 0.9.9.7
- PDF Download 0.8
- Sage 1.3.10
- ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 (ex- PFF)
- StumbleUpon 3.05
- OpenSearchFox to easily add sites to Firefox Search Box
- tweaked Fx according to Zolved (suggested by Lifehacker):
-
in about:config,
- I checked that
browser.cache.memory.enable
was set to true - I created an integer
browser.cache.memory.capacity
with a value of 12228 (guess my RAM ?) - I created a boolean
config.trim_on_minimize
and set it to true
- I checked that
- I also used those tricks collected by Gina Trapani:
- set
browser.tabs.closeButtons
to2
(no more close buttons: I use middle-click) - set
browser.chrome.toolbar_tips
tofalse
(no more chrome tooltips) - set
browser.urlbar.hideGoButton
totrue
to turn off the rarely-used Go button at the end of the address bar
- set