Comments on: Tech Tip: Speed up Firefox to use less CPU.

By: kurato

kurato — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:45:41 +0000

i found my chrome in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\chrome. not the same path that you display. but it still work for me ^^. ty, it reduce from 100% to 30-70%, sweet. now i can watch youtube properly

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:23:24 +0000

Yes, it should work.

By: crazy_ bob

crazy_ bob — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:31:10 +0000

This is quite old now, but I have firefox 3.6 – is this disable throbber option available in 3.6 too?

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:49:10 +0000

eclas, firstly you should check via your system monitor whether or not you are actually affected by this issue. Not everybody is, and only if you are should you bother to do this.

Note that this is also theme dependent – change your theme, you’ll have to redo it (with different syntax because themes are different)

By: eclas

eclas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:52:59 +0000

Didn’t work for me.
using Firefox v3.0.13
Vista x64

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:52:21 +0000

Might want to check you commented all the code out as necessary, or if not do a quick search for where else a throbber might be generated. (I don’t have 3.0.12 on me now so I can’t check sorry)

By: Pavlos

Pavlos — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:39:29 +0000

Thanks for the great tip.I have a problem though while the throbber eliminated, the tab loading indicator still showing up while the tab is loading.Is there a way to fix this?I am using firefox 3.0.12 in ubuntu.

By: NathanKP

NathanKP — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:21:41 +0000

Wow! I never realized that the spinning circle took up that much processor time. That’s almost unbelievable.

NathanKP

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:56:42 +0000

See Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes.

By: p.

p. — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:53:55 +0000

what do you mean by ‘theme’?