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FIREFOX TAB SUSPENDER MEMORY SAVER HOW TO
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This answer applies to Firefox and to other Web browsers.

FIREFOX TAB SUSPENDER MEMORY SAVER HOW TO

The difficulty is : How to retrieve this data ?

The Web browser definitely has the form data in memory. Examples: HxD (freeware, IMO better), wxHe圎ditor (FLOSS). Notepad++ should handle it, but you need to turn off syntax coloring and spell checking.

Use some editor which supports loading big files.

Find firefox.exe row, right click on it and choose "Create dump file." from the context menu.

You may now right click on firefox.exe row from the main window and choose "Resume". I used Notepad++.įind the text, copy the needed part. I don't know about built-in Notepad, but it should work.

Open the saved file in an editor that supports Unicode. My comment was looking like part of HTML, i.e., it had and tags around. If you'd find your text click on the "Save." button. Don't worry about it it's the Unicode thing. Most strings will be visible with null character after every char, e.g., foobar will be f.o.o.b.a.r (hex 66 00 6F 00 6F 00 62 00 61 00 72). I had my comment in two parts of the memory – in one it was full, in other just second half. If you don't get results, try another word. The longer and more unique word, the fewer results you'd get (so it will be easier). Word because some strings could be saved, e.g., as " foo bar". I used "Contains (case insensitive)".Įnter some word that was in your lost text. Just kidding! Go to the next point :)Ĭlick on the bottom-left "Filter" and choose menu item that fits you the best. Check every one searching for the lost text. With such settings I've now over 700k strings. Click on the "OK" button.Īfter a while (up to minute, but probably a few seconds) you'd get all strings found. len.: 10 Detect Unicode Search in Private / Image / Mapped. I used default settings ( is checked checkbox, is unchecked) – Min. Go to the "Memory" tab and click on the "Strings." button in the top-right corner.

FIREFOX TAB SUSPENDER MEMORY SAVER WINDOWS

Then it would look like Firefox is frozen, so if Windows would ask you about terminating not responding process, don't do it! It's alive, just sleeping.ĭouble click on the firefox.exe row or choose "Properties" from the context menu of firefox.exe. I opened ProcessHacker (PH), found firefox.exe on the list (you can click on the "Name" column to get rid of the tree view and get a list view) and from the context menu I used "Suspend". The first thing to do is to pause the process. That's the exact list of steps I took: Method I You can do Method II, steps 1&2 to be safe and then Method I to make it easier. With second you'd get a file you can give to some expert, if that tutorial would be too difficult. Second is more fail-safe, but needs an additional tool.

FIREFOX TAB SUSPENDER MEMORY SAVER PC

First is more user friendly, but if PC would crash, you'd lose data. It should work with every browser, not only Firefox. It's only for Windows – for a Linux method, check that question. It needs a third party tool – ProcessHacker. My method was tested in an emergency case (lost Facebook comment).