FeedsFirefox, RAM Hog
Apr/04/2006 12:56 AM
I love Firefox, easily the program I use most on the computer. I probably spend 12-15 hours a day using it. But, it really needs to chill the fuck out on it's RAM usage. I mean, what is it doing. I had seven tabs open. Of course, a simple restart of the program makes everything better, but they need to fix the memory leaks, because like to run this non-stop.
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I found a great fix for this. In the address bar type about:config. THen right click in the window and select New - Boolean. Enter config.trim_on_minimize
and then select true in the next box. THis reduces firefox memory and also uses hard drive instead of RAM when Firefox is minimized. Good luck.
Comment by: Joe on April 11, 2006 09:43 PM
Thanks for the tip! I'll leave mine by though as I got 2GB of RAM, so I have plenty of RAM to spare, but I bet a lot of people would benifit from this.
Comment by: Cameron Bulock on April 11, 2006 10:57 PM
Do you know id there are some plug in for firefox , who can give me more free RAM and CPU?
Comment by: Matteo Raggi on June 16, 2007 01:16 AM