Firefox eats lot of memory?

April 2nd, 2009   Filed Under Good to know, Patch, Tips & Tricks, browser, firefox  

Great!!  that you came across the same road where I was chuckling for a while thinking and getting annoyed…

No doubt its a great browser; But the plugins eat a lots and tonnes of memory of your system and also by default it stores a lots of history for you…

So to lessload its history go to the Tools>Options>Privacy and reduce the history from 90(default) to 10 or less days.

But still, when you open multiple tabs you still find it hogging your system memory. To work with a different memory expensive application like Photoshop or Outlook or Eclipse.. you need a lot of memory…

So what to do?

No worries… open your firefox browser… type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.

Hit enter. Now right click on the white space somewhere and choose New>Boolean…
An input box will appear..

Put “config.trim_on_minimize” (without quotes)…. Hit enter

Now choose “true” from the list and hit enter.Restart your browser… it will only hog the memory when you are using firefox… otherwise when you minimize it… the system memory hogged by firefox is released.

Check the status of your memory by using the Windows Task Manager. Enjoy the great browser and its plugins. 

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Dell Latitude D630 sound problems solved

March 3rd, 2008   Filed Under Device Driver, Hardware, Patch, Technology, Tips & Tricks  

Woooof!! … I have a Dell Latitude D630. This laptop is having numerous always happening problems with its device drivers. One of them is the sound input problem and stereo mix problem.

When you try to plug-in some sound source to the external mic jack, it doesn’t recognize the input. I was like “sweat-bathing” in googling  some solution for this. But after I reached the 10th page, I came to know that recently Dell has released a patch for this problem. It can be downloaded from the following path.

ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/R171789.exe

It works pretty well and I am more than satisfied, because now the device driver not only works, but they have also developed a UI for managing the input controls.

Once you jack your input source, the auto-detect connection event fires and it asks you for the type of input you desire to have.

This is really very satisfactory after so much of frustration.

Thanks Dell

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