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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5 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!