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 Cybernet Technology News offers a quick fix that can help with Firefox's annoying memory leakage. This fix will bump memory usage down to under 10MB every time you minimize Firefox (Windows OS, only). When minimized, it writes Firefox to the hard drive and fetches it from there when you maximize. Memory obviously increases again, but the process will release some of the "excess" memory Firefox is holding onto. In the test the author did, the browser started off using 180MB of memory. After minimizing, then maximizing, it only inflated back to 60MB.
Allegedly, IE and Opera already do this memory management. Hopefully, Firefox will implement it in a future release. Until they do, there's a simple change to perform in the Firefox config file.
See the steps after the jump...
Steps to Improving Firefox's Memory Management:
1. In Firefox's Address Bar, enter about:config. Press Enter. You'll be taken to Firefox's about:config page.
2. Right click within the page. From the window that pops up, select New -> Boolean.
3. In the input box that pops up, enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press OK
4. In the window that pops up, chose True. Press OK.
5. Quit and Restart Firefox.
That's it. Now, whenever you minimize your browser, on maximize, Firefox'll be hogging less of your system's precious resources.
More info in the Mozilla Knowledge Base
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