Firefox: Run Faster Without Rebooting Reinstalling


	Firefox: Run Faster Without Rebooting Reinstalling

LorisKnight

9-30-2007 12:50 PM

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11-28-2007 4:35 AM

zrezvi

Does this work with the portable version of Firefox...? I think not.

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If <A href="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/" title="Posts tagged as firefox" class="tagautolink">Firefox</A> has a flaw to get bummed about, it's that it slows down your machine after a few hours of steady computing. Digital Inspiration has a workaround for this that (yay!) does not include any sort of <STRIKE>restart</STRIKE> reinstalling: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/run-faster-without-rebooting-reinstalling-305129.php"><BLOCKQUOTE><UL><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Start Firefox and export your bookmarks as a file on your hard-drive (we'll need them later).</LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Type firefox.exe - P in the Run box of Windows. </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Click the Create Profile button without making any modifications to your existing profile (which is normally called "default")</LI></UL></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/run-faster-without-rebooting-reinstalling-305129.php"> That should do it; now, when you start Firefox in your new profile, you should be up to speed (get it?). Sure, it won't have all the tweaks of your old profile, but if you're just looking for a CPU break, this might be the way to go.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9A0DA22D-3BDD-4107-8300-E9DF92A448EC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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