Raspberry Pi: Tuning Firefox

Purpose:

• Reduce Firefox's memory footprint so it is feasible to run on a 128 MB Raspberry Pi system.

Method:

• Create multiple virtual machines with comparable specs to that of the Raspberry Pi. (128 MB of RAM, same processor speed, etc.)
• Tweak and experiment with Firefox configurations, addons, and packages, seeing what uses an acceptable memory footprint.

Materials:

• Host machine for VMs
• Raspberry Pi Fedora Release

0.1 - Proof of Concept

• Build several Virtual Machines with Raspberry Pi specs, using the appropriate Fedora build
• Experiment with various combinations of Firefox configurations to find smaller memory footprints

0.2 - Rough Results

• Find/Propose several options for Firefox configurations

0.3 - Final Recommendation

• Collaborate with those in the Open Source community, and decide on one/a few ideal configurations for various ARM Fedora Builds