Firefox eats lot of memory?
April 2nd, 2009 Filed Under Good to know, Patch, Tips & Tricks, browser, firefox
Great!! that you came across the same road where I was chuckling for a while thinking and getting annoyed…
No doubt its a great browser; But the plugins eat a lots and tonnes of memory of your system and also by default it stores a lots of history for you…
So to lessload its history go to the Tools>Options>Privacy and reduce the history from 90(default) to 10 or less days.
But still, when you open multiple tabs you still find it hogging your system memory. To work with a different memory expensive application like Photoshop or Outlook or Eclipse.. you need a lot of memory…
So what to do?
No worries… open your firefox browser… type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar.
Hit enter. Now right click on the white space somewhere and choose New>Boolean…
An input box will appear..
Put “config.trim_on_minimize” (without quotes)…. Hit enter
Now choose “true” from the list and hit enter.Restart your browser… it will only hog the memory when you are using firefox… otherwise when you minimize it… the system memory hogged by firefox is released.
Check the status of your memory by using the Windows Task Manager. Enjoy the great browser and its plugins.
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