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ffzap
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Why
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Firefox  is an enormously greedy application. It consumes a lot of CPU time even
while you are not using it — especially given today's websites' custom of making
one  background request after another — which has negative effects on power con-
sumption and laptop battery life. You don't want that.

How
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`ffzap'  comes  to solve this problem. It automatically suspends  firefox  (with
SIGSTOP)  when you are not interacting with it and resumes it back when  needed.
`ffzap'  expects  you to have one workspace dedicated solely to  firefox  (which
most people do, anyway). When leaving it, `ffzap' waits for a configurable time-
out  and if you don't return back by then, it freezes the firefox process.  Your
browser is resumed immediately upon re-entering its workspace.

BEWARE: With ffzap, your Firefox will be unusable for downloading files (because
a frozen process can't do much of a transfer). We are completely OK with that as
we  believe  web browsers are not designed to do downloads and there are  better
tools for that job. FlashGot[1] integrates them seamlessly with Firefox. Believe
us — one try and you'll love it.

[1] http://flashgot.net/

Usage
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The usage is quite simple:

    ffzap2 <firefox-workspace-number> [timeout]

with  timeout defaulting to 15 seconds. It's recommended you add this command to
you xinitrc or autostart.


Releases
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./releases/ffzap-2.0.tar.bz2