MyPal Browser performance

UK-Tim

UK-Tim

Hi Guys,

I'm running Mypal 74.1.4 (integrated) & 29.3 (portable)

For quite some time I have noticed a poor response to keystrokes & mouse,
which is accompanied by a constant grinding of the harddisk.

After clearing the cached data (1GB) and doing a degrag things improved a little
but after 10 mins on ebay I noticed the cached data was about 600MB already.
(constant grinding of the harddisk?)

So I tried this on 74.1.4

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about:config (in the address bar)

browser.cache.disk.capacity = 10000 = 10MB

browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled (set it to false)

Restart Mypal

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It's early days, but things are a lot quicker & quieter now.
 
Well since making my gaff, I think I ought to at least report how things actually went.

When I looked up the settings myself, I missed the "browser.cache.disk.enable = false" altogether, but
when I saw it in cleverscreenname's post, I used that setting instead. Just turned the cache off.

I have actually turned the cache off in both Mypal 29.3 & 74.1.4 browsers.

For me that setting turned out to be "The bee's knees" not just because it was clearly prolonging the life of
my cherished Samsung Spinpoint F3 drives, but it also helped show up where the data throughput problems were,
which were clearly were down to the websites themselves like eBay & Aliexpress and not my broadband connections.
I "think" the Tab crashes have also stopped.

For the last 18 months my broadband & home telephone have been solely down to, two Huawi B525 4g routers each
on a different mobile network, and one of them having an old land line telephone plugged into the Voip connector on the back.
I generally find that one network will start data throttling or perhaps the mobile tower is being overloaded at certain times, so when that
happens I simply switch my wifi connection over to the other router and off we go again. The two sims cost about £10 a month
each here in the UK giving me about 100GB a month of paid for data.

One other added bonus to the cache being off is that my data usage appears to have reduced.
 
in About:Support under Important Modified Preferences I have

network.dns.disablePrefetch true
network.prefetch-next false

Those should lower your data usage.

I would also think that, after defragging your hard drive so your free space is consolidated, you'd be safe to turn cache back on to lower your data usage.

If you have a lot of memory (for example I'm on XP64 with 16gb RAM) you could put the browser cache on a RAMdrive, and optionally have it save/restore the ramdrive to harddrive during reboots. I've tested several, and settled on SoftPerfect RamDisk v3.4.3
I wouldn't do this if your XP is limited to 4gb RAM or less, because modern websites hog massive memory with all their nefarious javascripting.
 
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