firefox: resolving memory leak issues

Yes, firefox is a great browser. But it has some memory management issues. I mean there is a memory leak (or garbage memory) problem. It means that firefox consumes memory without any use. even sometimes you can see in the Windows Task Manager that the Mem Usage of firefox in the Processes tab is increasing constantly!!!

There is a simple solution that doesn't fix it completely, but makes it better to some extends. This is not a fix for memory leak but it affects it. It will move firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10mb of memory while minimized. this is one of the options in the firefox that does not included in the standard user interface. so if you want to enable it, follow the instructions bellow:

1- in the address bar type "about:config" and press enter. by doing this you can access to varable configuration console. it's something like windows registry.

2- right click somewhere on the page and select new boolean, and in the poped up window type "config.trim_on_minimize" and then press enter.

3- now select True and then press enter again.

4- now restart firefox and it's done!

if you are interested to working or understanding about About:config entries, there is a good reference and here is a link:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries

and here is some secrets and tweeks:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020880

have fun and good luck!

Tera era

yes it's happening now! we are moving toward the terabytes HDD drives.

of course it's about a year or even more that 1 terabyte drives came out (first by Hitachi), but i mean it's moving to the mainstream market now. mainstream market ranged from 160GB to 750GB. but in the near future we will talk about terabytes in the market.

increasing personal data by using more music files and high quality video files like HD movies and so on, makes you think about more and more storage space. now using external HDDs and high capacity flash drives is more common, and cost per gigabyte ratio is dropping down!

my first hard drive was a Quantum 8.4GB in my first PC, then a Western Digital 80GB on the new PC, then again another new PC and a Maxtor 250GB and after a while adding another Western Digital 250GB, so now i have total of 500GB space, and still need more space!

now I have a 8GB Transcend USB flash drive, heh... it's funny when i compare it to the old Quantum 8.4GB that is still operable!!!

in the past choosing a hard drive was easy but now it's more complicated because of new competitors and new dividing in this section! so if you want to buy a new HDD, you should know very more details about your options. and I think the well known tom's hardware site has a good article on it in it's winter-buy guide section.

so here is a link if you are interested:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/hdd-terabyte-1tb,review-31437.html

The Butterfly Effect

the butterfly effect was the name of 3rd episode of Heroes in this new season (season 3). this is a really beautiful TV show. i like it a lot! and also it was the name of a famous movie ("the butterfly effect" - 2004). anyway the title reminds me the real concept, and it's very marvelous!

the real concept refers to tiny changes that lead to very big changes; sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. in this theory, the flutter of a butterfly's wings in China could, in fact, actually effect weather patterns in New York City, thousands of miles away!!

here is another example. when you put a ball on the top of a hill, little differences between forces and the initial state make ball to slither a side.

and there is the same concept related to this term in time traveling, it's called the Time Paradox. in theory when somebody goes in to the past, and make a small change, he or she can't come back to the original now, because that little change in the past makes a big change in the future (Butterfly effect) , now many things has changed and it's another now!!!

which browser to use

I used AOL Netscape Navigator, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera for web browsing so far.

actually AOL played a significant role in the launch of the Netscape 6 browser and the first Mozilla-based, Netscape-branded browser was released in 2000. then in the year 2003 an independent foundation was created to support the continued development of the open source web suite. in fact AOL was a major source of support for the Mozilla Foundation. today AOL officially ended the support for Netscape.

I used to use Netscape before, but it wasn't fast enough. but today, open source Mozilla Firefox is fast & secure. and guys I think there is no reason to use that crappy IE again! but seriously don't use Microsoft IE for web browsing, specially IE 7. this is my advise to you! if you have not any security tools it just take less than 5 minutes from the time you executed IE, to fill your computer with all kinds of malicious softwares, malwares, worms & ... .

instead of IE you can use Mozilla Firefox or Opera.

in some companies workers are forced to use IE but in your home you can decide by yourself which browser to use. right?

Firefox has same functionality as IE and it is much more secure. and Opera has much more features and good functionality but less compatibility. but I prefer to use Opera as my primary web browser program and Firefox as secondary program. because Opera is very fast, feature rich and secure. it has many optional features. in earlier versions of Opera I experienced some compatibility issues with persian sites but now it's all gone. and I rarely encounter a site that is not compatible with opera.

hey Google released a web browser too. it's name is Chrome. but it's just new & I didn't use it much yet.