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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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.
I started using it recently. It’s not supposed to make FireFox faster, it is supposed to reduce RAM usage for the program, so that when people on old computers with 190MB of RAM (me) use FireFox, it doesn’t completely slow down every other program. I couldn’t run, say, RPG Maker VX and FireFox at the same time, because that’s 70,000KB and 60,000KB of memory at the same time, which my computer can barely handle, which slows down system processes and other programs. This has worked great for me, I haven’t gotten any ads yet, and now I can run FireFox and other programs together very nicely.
ditto to what cody said, now I can move gigs of stuff between my external hd and my internal much smaller one, i can surf the web, download @ ABOUT .5 mb per second off utorrent, AND watch an action movie like starship troopers 3 (horrid) all in one go, Im running 384 mb of ram, and a horrid 1.4 ghz pentium 4. This proggy helped me TONS! now I can actually really multi-task decently. My dell is eight years old, I bought it when I was still in middle school, im 22 now…
Cody,
Why are you such a cheap ass? You could get a rocking PC with 1gb of ram and a dual core processor from a major company like dell for about $400
Quit being such a cheap ass and get a new PC. Do all of you people on these old computers work at McDonalds?
nick, if you must know.
I happen to be 13 and don’t have $400. It took me about a month and a half to get my parents to get me some more RAM and I don’t think I’ll get a new PC, since this one serves me pretty well. I am planning on asking for a new graphics card for Christmas/birthday, and I won’t need a new computer until the ridiculously higher-powered graphics cause my computer to be junk.
I don’t have a job, soon I’ll be making #3.60 a day though.
You may want to look into this free tool: http://minimem.kerkia.net. It does the same thing as this ultimate optimizer tool though seems by far superior as:
- It can do it for another applications too, not just Firefox
- You can adjust the frequency at which it reduces the memory usage
- Though it does more it is smaller in size and not referenced on any site as adware
I use it every day and optimize Firefox with it using a 30s update; works like a charm, so well that I forget it’s running.
Well all these memtools will eat up your CPU load so quickly, I have a 1Ghz AMD chip and my CPU usage was always 100% while using these programs, this is because Microsofts .net framework program is ALWAYS running in the background. I would imagine that this handles the memory processes
Mscorsvw.exe
Run FUO or minimem and look at the cpu usage that this program takes up
So for me, this does nothing, I found that while firefox may handle thins like videos abit better, it lowers the amount of multitasking that I would usually be able to do
Excelent.Works fine.No virus.No Spyware or any type of Malware.Reduce Ram comsumption from 89% to 58%.Great.
lol,
I just removed all my unused add-ons.
That realy free’s a lot of ram.
(specialy the ad-blok add-on)
Yeah,nice
I’m using firefox as well, but i have doubts in that Firefox Ultimate Optimizer also.
Now,I don’t use task manager but Sysinternals “process explorer” wich is more thorough
In first picture you can see firefox running with this page opened ( http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxrunninghr5.jpg )and memory consumption is ~45 MB
in second picture ( http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxrunningwithoptimrf7.jpg )Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is running as well but there is same memory consumption and now Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is eating aditional 16 MB
Firefox Ultimate Optimizer, kiss my ass
http://www.virustotal.com/pl/analisis/27e12887421e0d1667e18d64cb4e72a9 that is ad-ware maybe virus
has a new version in 2009
Firefox Optimizer 2009
http://zenaz.co.uk/2009/01/04/firefox-optimizer-2009/
Virus detected!!!!
Win32/Adware.Agent
ESET NOD32 3.0 Antivirus
I’m not sure about that optimiser
McAfee does not like the file
nice info thanks for share
This is a great software. it reduces firefox memory usage to nothing Which is awesome
As far as the adware thing, yes, this installs a few shortcuts to websites, and asks if you want to install a toolbar, but it does NOT install actual adware/spyware/viruses. If you have a decent computer (Lots of RAM and CPU power) you will most likely not benefit from this, but on an older computer with not so much RAM, maybe. If you want to make Firefox magically faster, get rid of unused addons. Don’t believe me? Create a new profile for Firefox (it will leave your other one untouched) by using Run> firefox.exe -p and create a new profile, with it’s own folder. It should start up right away, and compare the amount of memory required compared to your current configuration. To get back to your old profile, run the command again and select the default one. Yes, Firefox will most likely always be a memory hog, but to me, it’s worth it for the extra addons and options. If you want a browser that is fast and slimmed down, try Google Chrome (build using the Gecko engine from Firefox) or Safari (not a personal favorite of mine). Those browsers do not offer much as far as customization, but they start up and run fast, and are generally safer than Internet Explorer. These are just my opinions, not fact. The situation is usually always different for everyone. My advice, do your research instead of believing a few belligerent comments.