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Broken Animated .gif, Firefox and Web-Developer toolbar

Posted by Salman on July 29th, 2009 4 Comments

I wrote earlier on this topic and I just found out a bit more, so I thought if I just update the old post people won’t find out the new “findings” (it’s on the previous pages now) so I thought I will write a new post.. and here it is.

This post applies to you IF:
1) You can’t see animated gif’s animations, that is they are broken.
2) You are using Firefox
3) You have already tried the fix mentioned here.
4) You have “web-developers” toolbar/plugin installed.

I found out:
Web-developers has many many many options, many many sub-menus, one of the sub-menu’s is called “Images” which hosts all options related with images. So one of the options in this menu is called “Disable Images”, which has sub-options like “All images”, “External Site Images”, and “Image Animations” well that’s our answer..

See if “Image Animations” is checked, if it is, uncheck it and then check if your animations are working now :)

I will post more fixes as I found them :) let me know if this helps anyone.

-Salman

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Animated .gif broken in Firefox?

Posted by Salman on May 25th, 2009 6 Comments

Hi,

Update: IF you are using Web-Developer toolbar, read this too.

I was having this issue from a while now, none of the animated gif’s on any page would work in Firefox but they worked fine in IE, Safari etc. It was not bothering me much but AJAX applications use animated gif’s to give instant feedback to users and since I was using AJAX in recent projects it was hard to test usability without seeing the animated gif.

So I searched for it on google and found a fix on 008000;">mozillaZine Forums.. and it works! so if anyone out there is having the same issue, here is the fix:

  1. Type 800000;">about:config in the address bar
  2. Search (FILTER) for “800000;">image.animation_mode“
  3. If you have the same error you will see it set to “ff0000;">none“. Change this to the default value of “008000;">normal“.

BTW I have no clue how I could have disabled this setting. I thought I might have disabled it while trying to fix firefox memory issue but that’s not the case.

Anyways it’s fixed, so have fun.

-Salman

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How to fix Firefox 3 Memory Leak problem

Posted by Salman on February 12th, 2009 17 Comments

Recently, I have very big problem with my Firefox browser. Few minutes after starting of Firefox application, my Firefox become too slow for surfing, all open applications freeze for two or three seconds after every my click. I noticed that Firefox.exe take up a big part of my computer memory. After reading several forums on the net, I find how to fix this “Firefox memory leak” problem.

Just follow these simple steps to get your Firefox memory usage under control. The solution was in ”about:config” Firefox hidden configuration options.

  1. Get the main configuration screen by putting “about:config” in the browser’s address bar.
  2. Right click on the page and choose New then Integer and create an integer called “browser.cache.memory.capacity”. Set it to a low number (I use 16384 – that means 15MB). This controls how many kilobytes of memory are used for the browser’s cache.
  3. In the Filter of “about:config” page (top of the page) put “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. Set “browser.cache.disk.capacity” (right click – Modify) to between 5000 or 15000 (I use 15000). For example: if you have 128MB to 512M use 5000, if you have 512BM to 1GB of RAM use 15000. This controls how many kilobytes of memory are used for the browser’s cache.
  4. Configure Firefox to swap memory to disk when minimized. In the Filter of “about:config” page (top of the page) put “config.trim_on_minimize”, Right click on the page and choose New then Boolean and create an boolean called “config.trim_on_minimize”. Set it to true. This mean – when you minimize the firefox window it will free up memory.
  5. In the Filter of “about:config” page (top of the page) put “network.prefetch-next”. Set “network.prefetch-next” to false. Network link prefetch will download all pages with the rel=”prefetch” tag, with false you avoid that downloading.
  6. In the Filter of “about:config” page (top of the page) put “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers”. Set it to low number. I set it to 6. This controls how many pages of history are kept in the back/forward buttons.

Restart Firefox and that’s it! Now, your Firefox and your computer will be much faster and you are ready for faster surfing. Enjoy!

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