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.

Manually Edit the TortoiseHg Registry

 Sometimes you have spurious entries that cannot be removed from the UI.

You can manually edit the Repository Registry by going to the local configuration directory--something like: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\TortoiseHg--and editing the file:

thg-reporegistry.xml

If you have an empty group, there will be a line like:

    <allgroup name="default"/>

which you can just delete.

Thunderbird (115.x.y) Use Body Text Style by Default

Update of my post from a few years ago.

You can set Body Text as the default composition style from the Tools Menu ->  Settings -> Composition:

uncheck "Use Paragraph format instead of Body Text by default".

Still, if you reply to an email and find yourself using the Paragraph style, you might think the option has been disabled. It's not. You just moved inside a Paragraph block.

Can not extract resource from com.android.aaptcompiler.ParsedResource

 If you get this strange error while building an app with AndroidStudio:

"Can not extract resource from com.android.aaptcompiler.ParsedResource"

 

 check if you just introduced an unprotected apostrophe (') in strings.xml and replace it with (\').

Thanks to soulflavacrew.

Download Your Data from Instagam

 The tricky part is to find how to start. 

1. Log in.
2. Choose your account in the top right corner.
3. Click on the Options icon, right of "View Archive".
4. Choose "Settings and Privacy".
5. In the "Accounts Center", choose "Personal Details".
6. Now in the left side menu, choose "Your Information and Permissions".
7. Choose "Download your Information" and proceed with customizing your request.
8. Wait for Instagram to notify you when the data is ready to be downloaded.

The End

AndroidStudio Archive

 The archive of older versions is here.

Windows Explorer is Dead in Windows 11. How to Restart it.

Windows Explorer is dead. You cannot open the Taskbar, switch workspace or even summon an open application but the mouse is responsive.

This worked for me:

Press Ctrl + Shift + ESC to open the Task Manager.

You can now restart Windows Explorer clicking: Run new task (top left) and then typing: explorer.

That should do it!