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Fix Firefox Memory Leak & Lower RAM Usage

Written by Amit Bhawani on Sunday, 31 August 20085 Comments
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Firefox Browser is general resource intensive and this increases with the number of Add On’s installed and tabs open while browsing the web. The new latest versions were expected to be fast loading and use less RAM but its still the same problem with the browser always using high RAM. Check out this screenshot of the current usage of firefox which is around 430Mb considerably very high.

Firefox RAM Memory Usage

Firefox LogoProcess to Reduce RAM Usage :
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

I made the above changes in the config section of my firefox browser and restarted the browser and checked out the Task Manager to find that how much RAM is saved using this tweak. Try out the changes and you can surely find your system would run great and hve a better browsing experiance.

Firefox Memory Leak Usage Check

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5 Comments »

  • Rockstar Sid said:

    reduced from 80mb to 68mb :D thanks for this.. i hope to see some more reduction!

    Good trick !

    - 31 August 2008 at 7:52 am
  • Venkat said:

    Thats a nice trick amit, even iam facing the same in Firefox 3, Does this trick work in firefox 3.Will try it out.When Firefox 3 was released it was said it would be even more memory efficient than the earlier versions but I observe that its still the same other than a few feature updates,Thanks for the trick.

    - 31 August 2008 at 7:53 am
  • Ramakrishna said:

    Thanks for the tweak Amit. It reduced a lot.

    - 31 August 2008 at 4:23 pm
  • Amar said:

    Hey that was pretty kool

    gud one Mr.

    - 1 September 2008 at 2:16 pm
  • Chromify your Firefox with ChromiFox Theme at Amit Updates said:

    [...] Get the latest Google Chrome theme for your Firefox browser if you are looking for the neat and simple looks. But its does not offer the same features as we are just referring to a theme of a browser and not implementing the same features. The browser will still continue to use high resources and you need to use tweaks to Lower RAM Usage. [...]

    - 9 September 2008 at 9:45 am

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