Faster Firefox

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/how-to-reduce-firefox-memory-consumption/
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak

about:config

browser.sessionhistory.max_entries  10
config.trim_on_minimize true
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers 6000
browser.cache.memory.capacity 8000
browser.cache.memory.enable true

Or install and use the Opera browser

12 Useful FireFox Plugins For Safe Browsing

http://www.smashingdownloads.com/2009/07/13/12-useful-firefox-plugins-for-safe-browsing/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9727/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4429
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6718
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722/
http://noscript.net/

Firefox flv downloader - Karbon

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/54453/

Disable Firefox' session restor at startup

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Session_Restore

browser.sessionstore.enabled = false
browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo
browser.sessionstore.max_windows_undo to 0.

Mozilla Plugins

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/howdoi/?p=199

~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

free online mindmap
http://bubbl.us/edit.php

eeepc ubuntu firefox flash

$ sudo apt-get remove swfdec-mozilla

$ sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

$ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ -l
total 10056
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 2009-10-09 04:47 flashplugin-alternative.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10278616 2009-10-09 17:59 libflashplayer.so

$ ls /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin
/etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin

Firefox optimizations

http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/24939/How_to_reduce_the_memory_usage_on_Firefox

Click Privacy. Un-check the "Remember What I've downloaded" check box.
browser.cache.memory.enable=true
browser.cache.memory.capacity=8192
config.trim_on_minimize=true