Let’s see, right now my FF is using up 70MB of RAM, plugins and all, compared to IE’s 20MB. (But IE is “cheating” since it’s more closely tied into the Windows operating system, several of the dlls and binaries it relies on are already loaded in memory, whereas FF has to load itself complete from disk.) I long ago applied the config.trim_on_minimize trick (from the website you mentioned) and it’s useful. When minimized my FireFox shrinks down to 40MB. But I still find it useful to shut FireFox down and just restart it from time to time.

I also use a memory manager called “SpeedUpMyPC” to help clear out and compact my RAM from time to time–especially when I have to load a resource hog like a video editing package.

Rich.
BlogRodent

btw, have you tried this

This May Help Your Firefox Memory Leak — CyberNet News

I uninstalled IETab some time ago due to it’s documented memory leak issues, which were immediately resolved for me when I dropped it.

I understand the issue was being worked on, but I have no idea if it’s been resolved. But it’ll take some convincing before I reload it since IEView works just fine for me at this point.

Rich
BlogRodent

Naturally, I am constantly tweaking my theme. I like lots of comments on posts, I like people interacting, but I want it to be easier to read. So, I first looked for a way to differentiate my own posts from the rest. That was easy enough to do with a couple PHP script changes and a stylesheet change. Then, when I added a plugin to get more pingback and trackback references stuck into the comments section, I went looking for another plugin. What I’d prefer is to have all the pingkbacks and trackbacks listed seperately, but that looked a little too daunting to do, so I opted to just visually identify them with a new style.

Here’s the code I use–minus a lot of the style, divs, and what-not. I may have introduced some coding errors by shortening this down, but these are the relevant pieces of code I have gotten away with.

<?php if ($comments) : ?>

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

<?php if($comment->comment_author_email == get_the_author_email()) { ?>
<div class="comment_author">
<?php } else { ?>
<div class="<?php echo "comment_". $oddcomment; ?><?php comment_type(__(”), __(’ ping-track-style’), __(’ ping-track-style’)); ?>">
<?php } ?>

<div class="content" id="content">

<?php comment_text() ?>

</div></div>

<?php /* comment or comment_author */ ?>
<?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */
if (’1′ == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = ‘2′;
else $oddcomment = ‘1′;
?>

<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>

Now, I’ll step through that….

This identifies the looping section of code that runs for each comment on a post.

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

This begins an IF/THEN segment that tests for the email address of the author of the post.

<?php if($comment->comment_author_email == get_the_author_email()) { ?>

If the post author matches the comment author, it will write the following HTML, which uses the “comment_author” style.

<div class="comment_author">

Otherwise …

<?php } else { ?>

If the email address doesn’t match, this line of code gets written. Within it you’ll see a variable for $oddcomment, which is a number, either 1, or 2, so that I could alternate colors for each comment if I wanted to. Then I added a bit of code I found elsewhere to simply add another style declaration identifying each comment as to whether it’s a pingback or trackback. I’m using one style for both of those: ping-track-style.

<div class="<?php echo "comment_". $oddcomment; ?><?php comment_type(__(”), __(’ ping-track-style’), __(’ ping-track-style’)); ?>">

This little bit ends the if/then section.

<?php } ?>

This creates the container for the contents.

<div class="content" id="content">

This inserts the comments of the comment (I skipped all the other styling and meta-data presentation.)

<?php comment_text() ?>

This ends the container for the contents and ends the container for the comment block.

</div></div>

This is the section of code that increments the comment style from 1 to 2 or back again to 1.

<?php /* comment or comment_author */ ?>
<?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */
if (’1′ == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = ‘2′;
else $oddcomment = ‘1′;
?>

This ends the processing for each commment, which starts the loop over again for the next commment.

<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>

Hope that helps.

Rich
BlogRodent

PS: You might find the following useful. First up is a comment highlighter that should do what I described doing manually, but there’s still some editing you have to do:

AuthorHighlight — WordPress Plugin Repository

And if you do have to edit some PHP and wonder what a particular piece of code does, visit the Wordpress Codex and search for the snippet you’re interested in:

WordPress Codex

btw — do you use a plugin to differentiate your comments? I see in your css that it has a different layout for comment_author but how does it call that?

Thanks

Rich
BlogRodent