Tune up Firefox memory issues

Firefox is free and a good browser, but eats lot of resources. Sometimes my firefox consumes 1 GB making my system run slower.
So my search in google to reduce firefox memory usuage, yielded the following conclusions.

1. Force firefox to release memory while minimize

Windows usually frees memory from the minimized applications. But firefox do not allow this. To make firefox to release the memory do the following. Type about:config in your address bar and press enter, add a new boolean value "config.trim_on_minimize". Set the value as True, close about:config and restart firefox. Now your firefox will release memory on minimize.


2. Restrict cache capacity

This done again by tweaking the about:config. Add a new interger value "browser.cache.memory.capacity". Refer the Mozilla page for more details about the values.


3. RAMBack

RAMBack is addon available for firefox that clears the cache of not used sites or closed tabs. You can find it here.



4. What lifehacker says

I found many posting under lifehacker.



• TooManyTabs.


• Extensions that leak memory.

Hope this will solve your memory issues with Firefox

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