Thanks to Mark, who pointed out the Firefox Tweak Guide, a great introduction for those about to make or having just made the switch to Firefox.
Posted by asa at May 2, 2005 02:12 PMYou forgot to add the URL (it's empty)
Cheers
-Jed
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_1.html
Posted by: Mark on May 2, 2005 02:40 PMAsa, I'm assuming you mean the newly posted Guide here.
If so, I wish you would definitively debunk the tip on Page 12. According to this tip, which is posted in various places around the Internet (Google firefox prefetch switch for a sampling), you can add the /Prefetch:1 switch to the end of a Firefox shortcut and it will somehow speed up the program's loading.
This tip is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the Windows Prefetch feature, which is completely different from the prefetch capability in Firefox. Anyway, I document how this rumor got started here.
If by some chance Firefox really does have a /Prefetch switch, please let me know. It's not documented in any official source. Otherwise, it would be useful to put this myth to rest once and for all.
Posted by: Ed Bott on May 2, 2005 02:53 PMHow come there are no comments here? I would love to see the answer... Is everyone ashamedly rushing to their computers to remove the Prefetch switch, so that they don't have time to comment? :-)
Posted by: eyolf on May 3, 2005 01:36 AMThe browser.cache.memory.capacity setting appears to be based on a documentation error. I've been ragging on that one for a long time, and I just noticed the documentation error.
The browser behavior appears to have been changed, and the memory cache does not work like that any more. Instead of specifying the capacity, the setting actually specifies the maximum inactive memory that is held in cache. The actual value held in cache seems to be limited only by available virtual memory, and is not limited by the capacity setting. [url=https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250558]Bug 250558[/url] describes failure to adhere to capacity setting, but the bug is marked as invalid because it describes expected behavior.
Posted by: AnotherGuest. on May 10, 2005 02:57 PM