{"id":1265,"date":"2013-03-11T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2013-03-11T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:31:41","slug":"mozilla-firefox-reset-your-profile-recharge-your-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2013\/03\/11\/mozilla-firefox-reset-your-profile-recharge-your-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox &#8211; Reset Your Profile, Recharge Your Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best features in Firefox is one of its least-known. Many, many people complain of Firefox feeling slow and bloated over time, and in a number of cases, they&#8217;re not wrong. They just don&#8217;t know that surfing the web can be analogous to playing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katamari_Damacy\">Katamari Damacy<\/a>, where simply browsing can accumulate cruft until you have this big ball of metadata that slows you down.<\/p>\n<p>If you find your Firefox experience is sub-par and a little more pokey than you&#8217;d like, you should try resetting your profile before moving over to another product. You should know that your preferences, extensions, and themes will be reset\/removed, but since you&#8217;re planning on installing Chrome or another browser, I&#8217;m willing to bet that&#8217;s ok (and you should <a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles\">back your profile up<\/a> before you do this, just in case). Your browsing history, bookmarks, and form info will be saved, and that&#8217;s the important thing.<\/p>\n<p>To reset your profile, open up <em>Help->Troubleshooting Information<\/em> from the Help menu, and click the reset button. This simple procedure will cure most things that ail you performance-wise with Firefox. You should also read our support article on <a href=\"http:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/reset-preferences-fix-problems\">Resetting Your Firefox Profile<\/a>, which will give you the the full scoop on what happens when you click.<\/p>\n<p>There, doesn&#8217;t that feel better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best features in Firefox is one of its least-known. Many, many people complain of Firefox feeling slow and bloated over time, and in a number of cases, they&#8217;re not wrong. They just don&#8217;t know that surfing the web can be analogous to playing Katamari Damacy, where simply browsing can accumulate cruft until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-general","category-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}