Restart Firefox Plugin - free up memory after lots of browsing

 
After just a morning of web surfing, Firefox's memory footprint can get very large.  Even with only one tab open and no videos running, Firefox was still using 789 MB of RAM on my Late 2007 MacBook Pro running Firefox 24.0.

A few Firefox developers have a created plugins to restart Firefox without loosing your tabs.  This clears all the memory that Firefox gobbles up during your browsing session even though tabs have been closed.

My favorite Firefox restart extension is "Restartless Restart".  It add a simple "Restart" option to the File menu.  A restart only takes a few seconds, but will clear hundreds of megabytes of RAM and let Firefox run smoother if it's been running for a long period of time without being closed.

After Firefox restart (1 tab open).  Reduced RAM usage from 789 MB to 328 MB.

How to Save Images From any Website

To save images from IMDB or any other website that tries to disable saving images from their pages, download the Web Developer extension for Firefox.

After installing this extension for Firefox, right click in a blank area on the page that has the image you want to save.

Go to Web Developer > Images > View Image Information. A new tab will open in Firefox that lists all the images included on that page. Scroll down the page until you find the image you want. Right click on the image and select 'Save Image As'.

(If the image does not appear at full size, click on the link for the image you want. Now you can save the image by right-clicking on the image and choosing 'Save Image As'.)




How to save images and photos from IMDB.

How to download Youtube videos in Firefox

To download Youtube videos in Firefox, install the Download Helper extension.

A new icon will appear to the left of your address bar after it's installed.

To download a video:

1. Go to the page of the video on Youtube and let it start to load for a second.
2. Pause the video.
3. Click on the arrow next to the Download Helper icon.
4. Choose which version of the video you want to download. (Most videos will have 240p and 360p version available. Others will have 480p and 720 HD versions.)
5. After the video begins downloading, remember to close the tab with video loading, otherwise the file will download slower.
   

Allowing blocked right click in Firefox

When a website blocks right-clicking with javascript, there is an easy workaround to get the links or images you need.

In Firefox options go to Content and click on the Advanced button across from the enable javascript option.



When the dialog box appears, uncheck the option to Disable or replace context menus.



Done. Even if a website pop-up an alert/status message, the right click context menu will still appear after it goes away.

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