{"id":1218,"date":"2008-08-31T05:25:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T05:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2009-08-21T06:09:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T06:09:42","slug":"firefox-memory-leak-ram-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/firefox-memory-leak-ram-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Firefox Memory Leak &#038; Lower RAM Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox Browser is general resource intensive and this increases with the number of Add On&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/bloold-ck-restore-address-bar-style-in-firefox-3\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/Images\/F\/firefox-memory-usage.PNG\" alt=\"Firefox RAM Memory Usage\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/Images\/F\/firefox-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox Logo\" \/><strong>Process to Reduce RAM Usage :<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.<br \/>\n2. Right Click in the page and select New -&gt; Boolean.<br \/>\n3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.<br \/>\n4. Now select True and then press Enter.<br \/>\n5. Restart Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/Images\/F\/firefox-memory-usage-speed.PNG\" alt=\"Firefox Memory Leak Usage Check\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox Browser is general resource intensive and this increases with the number of Add On&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-browsers","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/firefox-memory-usage.png?fit=408%2C160&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8098,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/free-ram-memory-with-ramback-for-firefox-performance\/","url_meta":{"origin":1218,"position":0},"title":"Free Ram Memory with RamBack for Firefox Performance","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"January 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Iam a heavy user of Mozilla Firefox browser and its very hard for me to move from this browser to the other new ones, which is why whenever i use this browser i find that i have somewhere around 50 tabs open along with many different Add-on's running in background\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Browsers Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Browsers Blog","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/browsers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Firefox-Cache-Clear.png?fit=476%2C301&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10344,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/clear-firefox-location-bar-address-bar-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1218,"position":1},"title":"Clear Firefox Location Bar &#038; Address Bar History","author":"Tony Stark","date":"April 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Address Bar is the bar which you find in a browser where in you can enter the website url and press Enter to load that specific website. 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