March 12, 2008 at 15:58Reduce RAM consumption in Firefox 2
We already know that in the third version of Firefox there will be much less memory, but what about the owners of the deuce. And you can do the following:
The first thing to do is disable unnecessary extensions. The optimal number of extensions is from 5 to 10, although I personally use more. In addition, there are extensions that lead to memory leaks: Adblock, Fasterfox, IE Tab, Session Saver, Adblock (you should use Adblock Plus instead ) - the source .
Open the page about: config and change or create (right-click) the following values:
There is information on fine tuning memory in Firefox
- Disable unnecessary extensions
- Enable memory deallocation while minimizing
- Properly configure the cache
Extensions
The first thing to do is disable unnecessary extensions. The optimal number of extensions is from 5 to 10, although I personally use more. In addition, there are extensions that lead to memory leaks: Adblock, Fasterfox, IE Tab, Session Saver, Adblock (you should use Adblock Plus instead ) - the source .
Configuring the cache and freeing memory
Open the page about: config and change or create (right-click) the following values:
- config.trim_on_minimize value of type boolean set to true (works only for Windows)
- browser.cache.memory.capacity integer value set to 16384
- set browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers of type integer to 0
Links (in English)
There is information on fine tuning memory in Firefox
