Reducing Firefox Memory Usage


	Reducing Firefox Memory Usage

anithinks

3-24-2007 1:51 PM

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firefox. tweak, memory usage

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3-24-2007 2:10 PM

Jackychanman

The reason I don't want to do this is because when I'm on firefox, I'm not playing intense games. When I'm playing games I don't have firefox open. Nice tutorial though for those intrested.

3-24-2007 11:03 PM

cpltaiji

Valuable information. Thank you!

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<P>You will see a window that looks similar to this:</p> <P><IMG width="633" height="374" border="0" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/WindowsLiveWriter/FixforFirefoxmemoryleakonWindows_14EC2/image06.png" /></p> <P>You will want to right click anywhere in the window, choose New, Boolean, and enter in the following text:</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P><STRONG>config.trim_on_minimize</STRONG></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>To change the value you can either doubleclick, or right-click and choose Toggle. You will have to restart Firefox, but after you do, you should notice the memory usage go way down whenever you have Firefox minimized.</p> <P>Update: You will want the value to be set to True in order for this to work.</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/940D2DC6-A2D8-4372-A2DB-BCAD8E554E0D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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