teamextension, Author at TeamEXtension

FireFox is my default web browser. I have a couple of FireFox extensions that I can’t live without. The major issue with FireFox is memory consumption. Here’s how I handle this problem.

1. Change the maximum number of URLs you can traverse through the Back/Forward buttons.

browser.sessionhistory.max_entries=10

You can change this setting by typing about:config in the address bar. For more information, go to http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries and search for “browser. sessionhistory. max_entries”.

2. Change the cache for recently visited pages.

browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers=4

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers.

3. Change the image and chrome cache.

browser.cache.memory.capacity=20480

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.memory.capacity.

4. Use Windows swap memory.

config.trim_on_minimize=true

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Config.trim_on_minimize.

5. Uninstall rarely used extensions and plug-ins.

6. Install the QuickRestart extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3559 and make sure you have “Show my windows and tabs from last time” chosen in the options dialog.

If you see FireFox memory usage is getting really big, do a quick restart.

7. If you want to have an idea what is in the memory cache, you can go to

about:cache?device=memory

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/About_protocol_links for more details.

If you have other ways to improve FireFox’s memory consumption, please let me know!

I was looking for a way to download a year’s worth of Google Checkout Fees and found a January 2009 post from Ashley Schroder. Google Checkout has changed since the blog post was made and the new steps are documented in the post’s comments section. I took the liberty of making an updated post on how to do it for tax year 2009.

You will need FireFox with the FireBug add-on.

Here are the steps:

Go to https://checkout.google.com/sell/payouts and log in to your Google Checkout account.
Open FireBug and edit the HTML. Search for the input tags startDay and endDay.

3. Add value=”d:2009-01-01″ to startDay. Add value=”d:2009-12-31″ to endDay. Remove onclick=”assignDates()”.

4. Click Download on the web page.

The file downloaded should contain a full year’s worth of Google Checkout Fees. If anyone knows a simpler way to do it, please let me know. Thanks.

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FireFox Memory Usage

Google Checkout Fees Download