Firefox uses too much memory or CPU

A few days ago Firefox started becoming unusable for me.

I usually have more than 10 windows and probably 40 tabs open at any time.

It was so slow I switched for a few days to Edge, which was much more responsive.

But I couldn't give up. I've been with Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firebird and Firefox all my browsing life.

I fould this page from Mozilla really helpful.

In particular the option to "Minimize memory usage" in the about:memory page.

A combination of actions can really have an impact on the usability.

Disable Firefox Translation Pop-up

Open a tab and go to:

about:config

 

Search for the entry:

browser.translations.automaticallyPopup

 

Double click in the row to switch from true to false.

 

Done!

Thanks to Mozilla Support.

Set up Credentials in Git for Windows

 Open a Git Bash terminal.

 

# Set user name

> git config --global user.name "John Doe"

# Set email

> git config --global user.email "john.doe@email.com"

Set password

> git config --global user.password "not_123456"

# Permanently store credentials

> git config --global credential.helper store

Thanks to GeeksForGeeks.

Remove an Account from Google Authenticator

Swipe from right to left to remove the selected Account.

Thanks to Parayil

Stop Seeing Unwanted Posts in Facebook

Are you still on Facebook and noticed the amount of undesired crappy fake AI-generated posts infesting your feed?

Instead of scrolling from Home, go to Feeds and choose more specialized feeds like Friends or Groups.

Less and Less Space on Your Disk? Using Thunderbird?

 If you see your free disk space going lower and lower and you are using Thunderbird, there's a good chance a bug is eating away a lot of it.

First step: disable automatic compacting of folders: uncheck "Compact all folders..."

Then go to:

C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\

Check the size if you have multiple ones, go inside and delete all "nstmp" files.

Those are the product of a bug:

"This sounds a lot like the folder compaction bug which can cause Thunderbird to drastically increase the size of temporary files (nstmp, nstmp-2, etc) if the process fails. We're currently rewriting the code for this (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1890448) and a fix should be coming soon."

Thanks to https://www.reddit.com/user/killyourfm/

Thunderbird Eating Up My Hard Drive : r/Thunderbird (reddit.com)

Free up Space in Windows 11

Open "System" and go to Storage -> Temporary Files or search for "storage" and click on Temporary Files. Customize and get some space back.