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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:15 am
by Zer
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:02 am
by Mr Arkadin
Well i ain't gonna try it till you tell us what it does
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:06 am
by Counterparts
FF's best trick is utilising 99% of your system's memory
Session Manager is a pretty cool extension, it allows FF (and probably Mozilla) to do what Opera does out the box (maintains all tabs between sessions):
https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?c ... er=firefox
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:38 am
by Zer
Well i ain't gonna try it till you tell us what it does
No risk no fun !
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:02 am
by Counterparts
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:06 am
by astroman
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:48 pm
by Ben Walker
I tried it - can't see what difference it's made. Ben.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:53 am
by Zer
it reduces the memory amount firefox is using and therefore saves ressources for other issues.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:10 am
by Counterparts
Seems to work the same way with Mozilla too
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:19 am
by Zer
Seems to work the same way with Mozilla too
Yep. Indeed. That`s probably why it`s called mozilla firefox in general.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:04 am
by Counterparts
I think that the (memory saving) trick only works when the window is minimised though.
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:50 am
by Zer
maybe.
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:46 am
by samplaire
And what command to use to reset my internal memory? Year by year it becomes more and more unprecise.
BTW recently I invented a not funny (but mine!) joke about Chuck Norris (borring, heh?). Here it is - Chuck Norris is going to star in the forthcoming Guiness Records Book screening.
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:58 pm
by valis
Firefox's biggest memory issue atm is the fact that it never cleans up closed tabs (history that could easily be dumped because its never accessible to the user again). It does seem to cap around 60-90mb for most people though (70-80 Mb here).
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:42 pm
by astroman
seems to treat a tab like an instance, with a single window it's 22MB here, now with 3 tabs it's 65MB.
not exactly frightening imho
cheers, Tom
