Would you use a program that would reduce the memory usage of Firefox to 100-200 Kilobyte ? I have no idea how the Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is reducing the memory usage to this amount but the task manager is verifying the reduction. Firefox has been using roughly 40 Megabytes of RAM whenever I started it and one homepage was loaded.
After starting Firefox Ultimate Optimizer the RAM usage was reduced to 188 Kilobyte even with Firefox as the active window. The software does not have to be configured and sits in the system tray all the time.
I did scan it with Virus Total which did not find a single virus but I’m still puzzled on how this is achieved. I tried searching for more information but the developers homepage is down currently. It must be some kind of trick but I can’t find out how it’s done. If you know let me know please.
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how do i dl it?
I have used it for a very long time. But I found that it will eat your CPU but reduce memory usage. You can see the effect when you using a high memory but bad CPU computer.
is that possible?? wtf?
If it eats your CPU, than it’s mostly likely just a virtual memory program. Instead of letting Firefox use RAM to run, it makes Firefox use the disk drive. Newer drives are probably so fast, you don’t notice the slow down.
It only disables FFs Ram Cache?
There is no miracle, look at this:
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/8368/39503971nf2.png
You can clearly see, that firefox uses same amount of memory, but not RAM.
autor of Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is FelipEx
http://felipex.net/2007/11/08/firefox-ultimate-optimizer-v11/
the prob is that this website is not available at the moment lackfer
Yes martin.It eats your pc and a trich which it uses is that it enforces firefox to use some virtual memory
Thanks Thinker, it seems you’re correct. However I believe this doesn’t mean the program is bad, somebody might find it useful if he is ready to sacrifice firefox speed to gain RAM for other programs. But not me :)
At the outset I would like to clarify that I am not a wizard or something ¬ ¬ only use a function whose name is EmptyWorkingSet (Removes as many pages as possible from the working set of the specified process) and applied every 5 seconds in all instances Firefox processes forcing it to release unused memory…
Excerpt from http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=es|en&u=http://felipex.net/2007/11/02/detalles-tecnicos-sobre-firefox-ultimate-optimizer/
Should we use this program since I believe most of us has big enough RAM to be eaten by FF? To me its just annoying to see that FF has taken so many resources but I didn’t see much improvement running FF on safe mode either.
I would personally say a NO to this for the time being. It consumes CPU instead of RAM. Every 5 seconds it!!!
What a crock of shit. VMem value doesn’t change at all, and that’s the more important value.
I offer to check out this on my PC. Will report if there is any difference later.
i found a thread in the MZ forums regarding this topic.
• http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=602648
This program just put all RAM memory used to the Virtual memory…
SteveBovine, you’re missing the point. The program aims to make firefox faster, by reducing ram, and it does just that. It doesn’t claim to be a wonder drug.
But it works fine for me…I just find that it crashes my Vi$ta so I have to run it in WinXP Compatibility mode.
teddyp, no, you’re missing the point. How is forcing all active things in memory into VMem going to make firefox faster? Answer, it’s not.
It’s repeatedly forcing a memory pressure warning in firefox so it dumps all non-active memory _at that point in time_ into VMem. But a second later such memory might need accessed, and so of instead of it being accessed from your fast RAM, it gets moved from VMem into your RAM again and then accessed, which is a lot slower.
uh.. time to reconfigure your taskman so you can see a bit more of reality
start taskman
click view
click select columns
tick: Virtual Memory Size
NOW take your “memory consumption” screen shots
:roll:
I think you should also tick the CPU Time column.
Right, it use the Virtual Ram to swap data, it could lead to a great performance drop, no one should ever use it!!!
This is good if you have a cheap Dell computer without much RAM but a decent CPU and Hard Drive space. Otherwise, if you don’t have any problems with FireFox, don’t worry about it.
is it just me or is this happening with everyone else but no one’s ever mentioned…
i am using kaspersky internet security and the moment i download this file, kaspersky blocks it saying it has some malicious code. it says “found AdWare.win32.FireOptimizer”…
has no one faced this problem???
I got the same notification from Spyware Terminator as well. It said that it will show pop up when the primary user interface is not visible.
its useless IMHO. yes it cuts firefox’s memory usage but the total memory usage ups by 3k, the 3k used by the optimizer. seems like its putting the memory usage of firefox on some rundll’s i saw popping out in the task manager when the optimizer runs.
some of you guys aren’t getting it — if you have 15 tabs open + 20 add-ons installed and only use 2 or 3 of them at any one time — the “unused” tabs & addons are eating SYSTEM RAM that would normally be available to OTHER apps that are being used so then it needs to write to the Swap file on the disk …>> his app DOES work if have lots of tabs open & lots of addons– and don’t tell me you switch between all 15 tabs in milliseconds which is the hard drive speed … man I think the internet is becoming just one complainers, cry-baby, Whiners nest … wahh!! wah!! wahhh! … people just like to criticize every thing — it’s f*kin free u don’t like it MAKE a f*kin better ONE!!
as for you guys saying it eats CPU – when I run it on an AMD 2100+ box it uses 1.54% of CPU & Firefox uses up to 15% … if I use Firefox WITHOUT it — often FIREFOX & it’s addons will eat up to 85 to 90% of my CPU … and BTW forget! Windoze Task Manager! get Process Explorer from here if you want to REALLY see what’s going on … it was created by the guy that found Sony was using a Rootkit for their DRM for their music CDs … Microsoft hired him and bought out his free tech apps … at sysinternals.com
You can get Process Explorer free here …
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
Idiots this is useless.
Yes you can tell a program to use your hard drive instead of RAM, but you see, THERE’S A GOOD REASON THAT PROGRAMS USE RAM BY DEFAULT; the hard drive is much MUCH slower then RAM, so all this will do is slow oyu down IMMENSELY.
It fakes the firefox process and hides the real one, this makes it seem to be using a very low amount of memory.It is adware and makes ads popup. do not use!. It actually uses more memory because of this. The friefox memory is split into different processes and it makes firefox.exe seem to use less memory.