Firefox Ultimate Optimizer - Use At Your Own Risk
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As a Firefox user, I am looking forward to the final release of Firefox 3. As most of you know, the current Firefox has a tendency to eat up memory like a kid eating cereal. So I was interested when a reader sent me a link to a software product called Firefox Ultimate Optimizer. The name sounds impressive but does it work?
Being an adventurous soul I though I would give it a try to see i it made a difference or not, or was just all hype. So I went to the link listed below and downloaded and installed a copy. During the install I was rerouted to a web site that also wanted me to install something called Web Go Radio, to which I stated no-no. Don’t want it, don’t need it and it wasn’t installed.
So does it work? I’m not sure yet since I’ve only been using the software for about 12 hours. But I’ll be doing a review later this week with a yea or ney opinion. But in the mean time, I’d state that this software should be used at your own risk.
I personally believe you would be better off waiting until Firefox 3 is released than to try an unknown. Plus I am always cautious of any software that wants to install some other junk behind my back. Just my 2 cents. Your mileage may vary.
Has anyone else tried this software? Let us know and what your opinion is.
Comments welcome.
DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE. IT DOESN’T WORK! MY MEMORY THIS AM HAS ALREADY SHOT UP PAST 103mb AND IS STILL CLIMBING!
Firefox Ultimate Optimizer download site is here
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14 Comments
Tim Hodkinson
April 16th, 2008
at 3:51pm
Haven’t you tried the latest Firefox beta? I started with beta3 and now I’m using the latest, beta 5. It’s a whole new browser. Very fast loading pages and nothing seems to trip it up like with FF2. Also, it’s very stable and I would say it’s only a beta in the Google sense of “beta”. The addons like mouse gestures, speed dial and adblocker (the only ones I use) have all been updated to work with the latest betas as they come out.
Better than Opera! Or at least a tie…
Ron Schenone
April 16th, 2008
at 4:45pm
Hi Tim,
I’ve tried FF3 beta 5 and it works very well. I’ll be updating once the final is released. I did a blurb here.
http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2008/04/04/firefox-3-beta-5-it-just-keeps-getting-better/
Regards, Ron
crazyperson
April 27th, 2008
at 12:09pm
All this does is take a load off of the RAM and put it into your Virtual Memory. So you sacrifice CPU cycles for RAM space in a sense.
mbah gendeng
May 2nd, 2008
at 8:46pm
yeah i dont like FF 3 too
Chris Stien
May 11th, 2008
at 1:46pm
I tried the download, it didn’t have any hidden stuff, in fact it worked great. My Firefox no longer eats up my free ram, I was amazed to see it running under 1 meg after I have visited serval sites, so I will recommend this to all my Firefox using friends. Thanks for sharing the link!
esee
September 15th, 2008
at 3:24am
I downloaded the torrent for the optimiser and I guess my site cleaned the trojan. It works exceptionally well. Firefox takes 200k resources and the optimiser uses 1000k no matter how many tabs are open.
Esee
TimC
December 17th, 2008
at 9:30am
Well I tested this program out and it really does do the job at keeping firefox memory usage extremely low. However this program takes a shot at your CPU Mhz (or CPU cycles in u perfer) and me personally I think it’s worth it only if you have limited RAM space.
Tim
Ron Schenone
December 17th, 2008
at 2:31pm
Thanks Tim for letting us know.
Snipes
December 30th, 2008
at 8:34am
I use the software and have for quite a while it does actually work but… kaspersky does report it to be adware in their extended adware database which means that the ppl at kaspersky think it might be adware but they cant really find where it does harm. I notice a huge difference with FF3 in loading and general mem usage
Neil Murphy
February 7th, 2009
at 12:19pm
1). The optimiser is as people had said a little bit of a con, it doesn’t reduce memory usage just removes it to Vmem. This may be helpful to people with limited RAM, but will cost in CPU and speed.
2). Firefox 3 I find very poor in resource usage on Windows XP. - It hogs huge amounts of memory, and does not release it. I have had it up to 240mb. I also find it frequently shoots CPU cycles to 90 or 100%. I have tried various fixes suggested on the web with little effect. This mismanagement of memory and CPU utilisation is something the Firefox team needs to get to grips with.
Ron Schenone
February 7th, 2009
at 2:14pm
Hello Neil,
I agree 100%. But what is weird is that not everyone experiences the high ram or cpu usage. Some people actually have called me a liar when I explain what happens.
Cristiano
March 18th, 2009
at 10:56am
It works here like a charm
FF 3.0.5 and .07 really sucks at ram usage on XP.
One day FF was taking 1.2gb of RAM :///
Installed this app and now things are really soft here, my notebook was slow as hell with FF open with a lot of tabs and now i open them and open other programs too with no problem !
Maybe it sends FF memory to virtual memory (pagefile), but thats better than flooding all physical memory and make the computer useless until you close FF, and better, its free (comparing to other memory release programs…)
John
March 22nd, 2009
at 11:22pm
I had a really big problem with FF 3.0.7, it would regularly use over 1G of my RAM, and Mozilla KB does not give a way to limit memory usage (they have something, referring to non-existent entries in the about:config, etc.) Under the circumstances, I am willing to trade off a moderate increase of my CPU cycles (on average now forefox/optimizer uses 6 to 10% of the CPU) to have 1Gb out of the 4GB of RAM available. I was really between this, and giving up on FF, after using it since early 2005 and switching back to IE, so I guess the choice was pretty obvious…
mar
March 28th, 2009
at 6:43pm
works fine, but hogs CPU instead of RAM which sucks