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By: Squall

Squall — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:37:22 +0000

IDIOTS SIGHTED!

hey Malu, thats to be expected, RAMBACK only affects REALISTIC memory reduction,
MemoryFox just purges all data from memory and causes increased pagefaults (disk thrashing)

By: VW

VW — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:02:16 +0000

Surprised I didn’t find MemoryFox on the official Mozilla Addons page so decided to comment here.

MemoryFox is invaluable particularly in Firefox 4 for me… without the constant flushing, memory usage balloons to ~500mb and stays there with about 15 extensions and 5 tabs open. With Memory Fox enabled, mem usage hovers between 29mb (when FF4 is out of focus and idle) to 132mb (one active tab, 5 other tabs still “opened”) without appreciable performance degradation. Only caveat was that I had to remember to uncheck “Protect my system blah” when a prompt came up asking me what user to run the Memory Fox addon as in Windows XP after enabling it.

And yes I agree with Malau – I tested RAMBack on FF4 (after having to force it to work via editing install.rdf as it wasn’t even compatible with FF4 by default) and clicked on the “Clear Cache” button that it adds to the TOols menu – it didn’t reduce memory usage at all.

By: Malau

Malau — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 08:51:36 +0000

SQUALL you cut and pasted your spam at the Mozilla Forum too, the exact same message !

‘SQUALL’ has vested interests in the RAMBACK addon, so therefore he spews his Memory Fox lies all over the internet.

By: Squall

Squall — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:05:13 +0000

Memory Fox’s purported Memory leak and freeing capabilities are a lie. Memory Fox uses a standard windows function to flush the process’s memory to the page file RESULTING IN WORSE PERFORMANCE.

Any windows developer with an ounce of free thought will realise in an instant that the claims maid by the extension author are bogus and the experiences of its users are placebo. Firefox’s stability and memory use will differ from session to session, and even between reloadings of the same session, and especially differ between Windows sessions.

The only extension which actually effects real memory usage is the ramback extension which flushes the System memory allocated caches.

Anyone seeking to verify this, can enable the Commit column in task manager or use about:memory.

This review will be going viral.

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By: Rash

Rash — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:16:31 +0000

Memoryfox 1.3 is available here in google’s CACHE

The Link

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:zfS_x2moN80J:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/53880%3Fadvancedsearch%3D1+%22Memory+Fox+1.3+%22&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

By: guger

guger — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:24:08 +0000

thank U for answer :D

i can’t speak english very well.

anyway..
i’m so sad that because does not remain the last version :(

By: guger

guger — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:08:53 +0000

thanks for answer :D

I did not speak English then why did not download.

well.. I wait for comming to nice add-on !

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:51:09 +0000

I think a sort of fatality will make me slip to at least to trying Chrome… :)

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:48:05 +0000

I emailed the author of ‘Memory Fox’ to let him know his extension was no longer available on Mozilla Extensions’ pages. He answered me that he was about to upload a new version 1.4. I presume the old version has been removed for a good reason, which I ignore.
So, let us wait for version 1.4, which should be available soon.

By: David T.

David T. — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:26:16 +0000

After using Firefox ever since it was Phoenix, I have switched to Chrome, now that v4 offers extension support. It is really quick and really nice. The web browser simply needs to be reinvented every few years I guess.

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:20:45 +0000

guger > I notified to the author of ‘Memory Fox’ that his extension was at this time unavailable on Mozilla Extensions’ pages. He answered me that he was preparing next version 1.4 and about to upload it. I assume last version 1.3 has been removed for a good reason that I ignore.
So, let us wait for ‘Memory Fox’ 1.4 which should appear soon …

By: guger

guger — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:06:55 +0000

oh, i want really this add-on

but i can’t found this

UR link page(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/53880)
print this message

Add-on not found!

How can i download this add-on?

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:26:32 +0000

I have had a dialog with the author about these event log records.

He says that the 2.0 release will allow for them to be disabled.

I have removed Memoryfox until that release is available.

By: wayne k.

wayne k. — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:43:08 +0000

i too get these enties in the application event log for the same AFOM error as above. annoying. i am seeing them every minute or so. i have set the event log to a fixed max size with auto overwriting, but as noted, this makes it hard to see any other progs errors as the afom errors eat out the heart of the log.

using win7 x64 & firefox 3.6rc2.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:24:14 +0000

@David T. said “@Jojo: That’s more of an annoyance bug than anything. I’d rather have lots of application log entries than deal with my browser grinding to a halt.”
——–
Perhaps. You won’t have lots of DIFFERENT application log entries. You’ll have the same two entries from AFOM generated every two minutes, over and over and over….

So if you ever need to examine event log records to see why an application might have a problem, well, you’ll be SOL because there won’t be anything there!

I’ve personally never experienced FF “grinding to a halt” despite running a lot of extensions and open tabs.

I am running on WinXP SP3 with 2GB RAM. My system has 81 processes running now. On FF (V3.5.7), I have 63 extensions and 18 plug-in’s installed. 45 tabs are open right now. FF is using about 500MB real RAM right now. I am NOT running MemoryFox.

By: David T.

David T. — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:43:43 +0000

@Jojo: That’s more of an annoyance bug than anything. I’d rather have lots of application log entries than deal with my browser grinding to a halt.