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.

security threats

today we all use the internet for many routine works and either professional works. and I can't imagine browsing the web without any security programs! an antivirus, a firewall and other security tools like anti spywares and so on ... . in fact security threats are increasing insanely. so you as a user have to use safe browsers ( like Mozilla Firefox & Opera and I really recommend not to use IE at all (I even blocked it by my firewall) ) with use of good security tools that really keeps you up to date and ready for new online and offline threats. one of the best solutions is to use of tools like Kaspersky Internet Security or NODE32 Smart Security & so on. such tools merged all the security tools in to one package with good integrity.

it might worth it to buy a commercial key for your Kaspersky Internet Security (that i'm sure it does). but some of users prefer to use other ways to use the software. there is a tool called KKP (Kaspersky Key Finder) that helps users to find active keys that are still usable. most of you guys know that the key will work for a short time and then again story starts from the begin; (it means the key is black listed) actually it is time to find another activation key! in the link below you can see how does KKP work!

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/10/24/investigating-how-kaspersky-key-finder-finds-and-downloads-kaspersky-keys/

so if you've read the link above, you already know that this program uses a static database updating manually and are hosting on free web hosting servers. so this program may stop working suddenly and there is no guaranty to keep it working.

by the way I really prefer to buy a legal copy!

the Wishes

be careful what you wish for ... it might come true

be careful what you wish for ... you might regret it

be careful ...

hey guys it's very important what you wish for, because it really affects your life.

you know in theory we are the abstract of our body's energy & our energy continues infinitely! this theory was proposed by Dr. Hesaby ("Infinitely extended particles" theory in 1975). if we believe that, i think it is possible to affect things even by thinking and concentrating! i know it's too complicated and hard to believe but not impossible!

i'm not in physics science or metaphysics. but it's just a thought, i think we can use our energy and when we wish for something in fact we are concentrating and focusing on something and indirectly using our energy to achieve it. so be careful about your wishes! good luck

and hey look at that funny picture heh ...!!!

hijri shamsi <=> miladi

hey guys i found a useful website. it's about to convert hijri shamsi date to it's equal miladi. if you want to know when is your birthday in miladi calendar, or anything else like that, then you can use it.
click here to go to the wbsite.
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update:

I don't know why but the online converter (the above link) is filtered for Iranian users, so in this new link you can download a local program to do the job. thanx to the developer and here is the link:
http://shamsigregorian.codeplex.com/

Note that this program requires .NET Framework v3.5 to be installed.

but if you still wanna use the online version here is another one with ability to convert Hijri dates also.

http://www.iranchamber.com/calendar/converter/iranian_calendar_converter.php

Metallica is back

it's a while that the Metallica's new album is published (the 9th studio album) . this is a realy beautiful album from metallica since Black Album. i feel metallica is metallica again! i've had missed them from when jason left the band. anyway Death Magnetic is a real album from metallica. if you like metal music so i'm sure you will enjoy it!

Album's songs:
1. That Was Just Your Life 7:08
2. The End of the Line 7:52
3. Broken, Beat & Scarred 6:25
4. The Day That Never Comes 7:56
5. All Nightmare Long 7:57
6. Cyanide 6:39
7. The Unforgiven III 7:46
8. The Judas Kiss 8:00
9. Suicide & Redemption 9:57
10. My Apocalypse 5:01

bitorrent download link: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4375962/Metallica_-_Death_Magnetic_%5Bmp3_-_320_kbps%5D

speed up your BT client

if you are one of the BT (bittorrent) users like me , then here is a tip for you!

as you already know BT or other p2p clients make many TCP connections simultaneously. in Windows XP or Windows XP sp1 there was no problem with that, but in windows xp sp2 or sp3 or Vista Microsoft has limited the number of simultaneous TCP connection attemps to speed down the spreading of computer worms. with this limit you can have only 10 attemps per seconds to make connections.

do you want to see if you have any problems with this limitation? and is it slowing you down? so go to the System log in Event viewer of Administrative Tools in Control Pannel and look for tcpip warning. Event Code is 4226 and description says: "TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts."

there are patches to remove this limit. the patchers will replace the tcpip.sys file with the new one. you can get a backup of your original tcpip.sys file. patchers will increase the number of HALF-OPEN connections. meaning you can TRY to connect faster to more IPs/Ports.

win xp sp3 pather: http://hwrms.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/tcpip-patcher.exe

in this patcher you can set the maximum value by yourself. note that default value in Win xp without limitation was 65535.

for win xp sp2: http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads

this patcher by default sets the value to 50.

this must change the internet speed a little bit, specially for p2p file sharing clients.

BSOD ?! oh no!

Hi every body

it has been a while i was experiencing a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) in windows xp sp3. but recently i got ride of it!

when you see such a disappointing screen (what a pain in the ass!), you should think about having a hardware problem (specialy your RAM or PSU), or a bad driver, or even maybe it's a software problem. but this is more offten about your RAM. maybe you need to configure your RAM parameters in your motherboard's BIOS manualy.

so first of all you need to check your RAM. you can test your RAM with memtest86+ program.it's a diagnostic tool to test your RAM. you need to let it go for at least 7-8 times pass. if you see any errors then it's your RAM. anyway it's a free software that you can download it or check it out here: http://www.memtest.org

i don't wanna write a compelete trouble shouting reference about this problem, but there is some references about it on the web. i'm sure you will find it if you realy need it, right?

just some notes: all the BSODs aren't about the same problem. so you can go to the system events log in the Administrative tools on your control pannel and find the error code and (if needed) a mini dump of your memory. for the meaning of error codes you can go here: http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

that website has some other useful information about such crappy problems too. i hope this help.

bye 4 now

Tehran

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the first post

Hello

"x over x" means this blog haven't any specific subject!!

this is the first post, so i leave it like this!

bye