- Step 1
Click on “History” from the Firefox browser window of the closed tab. This will open a list of options. Toward the bottom of the list is the option “Recently Closed Tabs."
- Step 2
Click on the side arrow with “Recently Closed Tabs.” This will open another list. This list contains the names of all recently closed tabs, plus an option to “Open All in Tabs.”
- Step 3
Select your desired tab by clicking on it. If you are not sure which recently closed tab it is, you can alternatively select “Open All in Tabs” in order to view them all. Select the correct tab, and close out of all unneeded tabs.
- Step 1
If closing your tab also closed your window, not all is lost. Open a new window and click on “History."
- Step 2
Between “Home” and the grayed-out “Recently Closed Tabs” is the history of the sites that have been recently visited. Your closed tab should appear in this list. If you have your settings adjusted to erase your history when you close out of Firefox, this option will not work.
- Step 3
To check or change your “History” settings, click on “Tools,” then “Options,” and then “Privacy." Make sure to check the option to “Remember visited pages for the last [insert any number here] days."
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How to Minimize Firefox Memory Usage
Method 1 - -
(1)Open Firefox and click Tools in the browser top menu, then click Options > Privacy.
(2)In the 'History' section, leave 'Remember what I’ve downloaded' unchecked.
(3)In the 'Private Data' section, click the button 'Clear now...', when the dialog box comes up, put a check mark beside these items: Cache, Saved From and Searched History, Offline Website Data. You can mark the 'Cookies', too, if you want. Click 'OK'.- Step 2
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(1)In the Firefox address bar type [about:config], minus the brackets, and press Enter. Click the button "I’ll be careful, I promise!" if you are seeing a warning message.
Next, create a Boolean (false) value and name it "config.trim_on_minimize", without quotations. Set it’s value to 'True'.
You should set the value according to the mount of physical RAM installed on your computer. Set value according to the following: (Installed RAM: 256MB / Set the value to: 4096), (Installed RAM: 512MB / Set the value to: 8192), (Installed RAM: 1GB / Set the value to: 16384), (Installed RAM: 2GB /Set the value to: 32768), (Installed RAM: 4GB / Set the value to: 65536) (Installed RAM: 8GB / Set the value to: 131072). - Step 3
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(1)Launch Firefox then enter this, [about:config], without the brackets, in the address bar.
(2)Scroll down and find entry that says: browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers, double
click the item.
(3)In the 'Enter Integer Value' text box, type in:
"0" to disable the Firefox cache, change "1" through "8" to set the maximum cache; to "1" through "8" previously viewed pages, enter "-1" to return the cache to default. Enter value without quotation marks. - Step 4
After reclaiming some RAM from Firefox, open the Task Manager while keeping firefox browser open. To access Task Manager:
(1)Click 'Start'. Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Performance
(2)Find the Firefox process on the current activity list, and view the RAM usage. You'll witness Firefox RAM usage drop dramatically. - Step 5
According to lab tests, Firefox never seems to clear the cache memory it uses. It won't let go of memory until you close all windows Firefox. If you never close Firefox browser completely while spending several hours on the web, your computer will use nearly 1GB of accumulated memory during the session. If you feel a lag on your Firefox browser speed while online, then it might be a good idea to try the fix suggestions in this article.
Firefox magic: Kill your Search box
I know that 90 percent of Mozilla Firefox users who read this post will think I'm nuts. I can hear you now: "I love my Firefox search engines! How will I search Amazon?!"
Well, I love my search engines, too, but that silly Search box in the Firefox toolbar simply takes up too much room for my liking, especially because you can use all of the functionality of your favorite search engines directly from the Firefox location bar (also called the "address bar" by people like me). I'll show you how.
If you prefer an address bar that goes all the way to the right side of the interface, listen up. It's simple to use Firefox "Quick Searches" in the location bar to eliminate the need for the Search box entirely. By default, Firefox installs with four Quick Search links already in your bookmarks: Google, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, and Urban Dictionary.
Try it out. Type "wp pee-wee herman" into your regular address bar, hit Enter, and you'll be taken to a special search page on Wikipedia for "Pee-wee Herman" that will automatically direct you to the Wikipedia page for Paul Reubens, with no Search box necessary.
The real trick to killing your Search box is transforming all of your installed engines into Firefox Quick Searches. There are several ways to accomplish the feat, but I'll detail the two most common. After that, removing the actual Search box is a snap.
First method
Right-clicking in any Search box allows you to 'Add a keyword for this search...'
The first technique for changing all of your search engines into Quick Searches is the most reliable, but it takes a bit more effort than the second. Start out by visiting the Web site of the first search engine on your list. Let's use the ubiquitous Internet Movie Database Engine (IMDB) as an example.
On the IMDB home page, find the Search box, and use the drop-down menu next to it to set the type of search you want (titles, names, characters, or "all"). Then right-click in the empty search field and select "Add a keyword for this search" from the context menu. An "Add bookmark" dialog will appear. Name your Quick Search (e.g. "IMDB search") and select your keyword.
I prefer the shortest keywords possible that are easy enough to remember, so I use "im" for IMDB. Decide where you want to save your new search bookmark, and hit "OK."
From this point on, in order to search IMDB, you'll only need to type in "IM
Process all of your search engines in this same fashion, creating Quick Searches for each. When you're done, you can kiss that Search box good-bye.
Second method
The Bookmark Properties menu lets you add Quick Searches manually.
The second technique for converting search engines into Quick Searches accomplishes the same goal as the first, but it utilizes that pesky Search box while you've still got it around.
First, select Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks to open your bookmarks directory. Then go back to your open Firefox browser window. It's easiest to sit those two windows side by side.
Start with the first search engine in your Search box. For me, it's CNET Download.com. Type in "s" as your search term, and you'll be taken to this Download.com search result for "s." The URL in the address bar looks like this:
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tag=srch&qt=s
You see that "qt=s" in the URL? That's your search string. In order to change it to a quick search, all you need to do is change the search term to "%s". If you're searching for "s" already, all you have to do is add a percentage sign before it. The Quick Search URL will look like this:
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tag=srch&qt=%s
Copy that URL and go back to your Bookmarks window. Select any of the bookmarks in the Quick Searches folder, and hit "New Bookmark." In the ensuing dialog window, add the name of the search ("Download.com search"); the "Location," which is the URL above (http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tag=srch&qt=%s); the keyword you want to use (I chose "dl"); and any optional description. Then hit "OK." You've now got a new Quick Search for Download.com
Simply repeat the process for each engine in your Search box until you create a Quick Search for all of them
Removing the Firefox Search box
Once you don't need the Search box, it's simple to remove it.
Now here's the easiest part of the whole process. The Search box can be removed like any other element in your Firefox toolbar. Right-click on any open space in your toolbar, and select "Customize" from the context menu. A Customize Toolbar dialog will then appear.
Simply click on any part of Firefox's Search box (your mouse will transform into a hand icon when hovering over the Search box) and drag it into the Customize Toolbar window. Now you see it; now you don't!
If you've got anything like the default Firefox interface, your location bar will now expand all the way across the toolbar to the right edge of the browser. And if you ever get lost and confused without your Search box, you can always bring it back by opening the Customize Toolbar dialog and dragging the Search box anywhere you'd like on the toolbar.
Sample Quick Search bookmarks
If you're still not quite sure what I'm talking about, you can download this CNET Download.com Searches bookmarks file to view some examples. Once you've saved it locally, open Firefox, then go to Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks. From the Organize Bookmarks menu, select File -> Import, select "Import Bookmarks from File," and then browse to the "download_search_bookmarks.html" file you saved locally.
Now you'll have a new bookmarks folder named "CNET Download.com Searches" at the bottom of your bookmarks that includes these 20 Quick Searches listed here:
Amazon.com - Type "ama
Boing Boing - Type "bb
CNET - Type "cnet
CNET Download.com - Type "dl
eBay - Type "eb
Flickr - Type "fl
Google - Type "g
Google Images - Type "gi
Google Maps - Type "gm
Google News - Type "gn
Google Product search - Type "gp
Internet Movie Database - Type "im
Last.fm - Type "lastfm
CNET News.com - Type "news
SiteAdvisor - Type "sa
Thesaurus.com - Type "th
Urban Dictionary - Type "ud
Webware.com - Type "ww
Wikipedia (English) - Type "wp
YouTube - Type "yt
Three useful Firefox 3 'awesome bar' hacks
1. Control how many listings you're getting. The default number of sites that show up on the Smart Location Bar, or "awesome bar," of the nwe Mozilla browser is 12. Changing that number works the same way as getting rid of the sites altogether.
Just type about:config into your address bar, hit the "okay" button when the security warning pops up, then paste browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the open box, and hit the Enter key.
Double-click the result, and it'll let you change that digit to whatever you want. One thing to note, though, is if you add more results, it won't make the list any longer than six at a time, so you'll still have to scroll.
2. Keep bookmarks off the address bar. You save a bunch of sites, but you don't want them showing up when you're typing, right? This extension will keep the church-and-state line of browsing history and bookmarks from being crossed ever again.
This probably isn't useful, if you only have a few bookmarks, but it can be very helpful if you've got a huge collection that requires you to scroll down the list to find the site you're looking for, effectively killing any time saving the bar was meant to do.
3. Keep certain sites from showing up altogether. Got a site you'd rather not have others see when they're using your machine? Unless you've got browser history turned off, and the site isn't bookmarked, you're generally out of luck.
There's currently not a way to keep specific sites from showing up or right-clicking to remove them from the list, which is why we have to recommend using Apple's safari it's "private browsing" feature. When toggled, it won't save any of your information, clicks, or cached data for anyone else to find.
If you don't feel like switching browsers that emulates the same thing, deleting only the bits of data from that session. Just don't be surprised if your significant other or kids ask why there's an eyeball in the corner of your screen.
