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Reduce Firefox’s memory usage when minimized

September 7th, 2007

Everybody knows that Firefox has problem with the memory usage. Sometimes it can reach to hundreds of megabytes. But here is a trick on how to reduce the memory usage when you minimize your Firefox.

1. Type about: config in the Firefox address bar and press Enter.
2. Right click in the page and select New > Boolean.
3. Type config.trim_on_minimize in the box that pops up. Press Enter.
4. Select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

What it will do is, when each time you minimize your Firefox, the memory usage will dramatically drop down to about 10 MB but then it will slowly increase up to 50 MB. When you maximize it back, it will stay put at 50 or maybe 70 MB.

Via Expresscomputeronline.com

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    4 Comments

    • 1. Web Inspiration&hellip  |  September 8th, 2007 at 03:20

      Reducir el consumo de memoria de Firefox al minimizarlo….

      Todos sabemos que Firefox tiene problemas con el uso de excesivo memoria. A veces puede llegar a consumir cientos de megabytes. Pero he aquí un truquito para reducir el uso de memoria cuando minimizas Firefox.
      1. Escribe about: config en la barra de d…

    • 2. Mike Farley  |  September 20th, 2007 at 16:18

      Does just as you describe – brilliant! Thanks a lot… :-)

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