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Firefox users (about Memory Leaks)

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:29 am
by m3mn0n
I found a good resource about the topic that details a few fixes to solve the issue... one promises to be rather effective:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak
Changing the about:config preferences below may have an effect on memory consumption but may also affect performance or reduce functionality. Read each article for the preference's effects. Each preference includes an estimate of the amount of memory that can be freed on an average (512MB RAM) system by choosing the most memory-friendly setting.
Preference Max memory freed
browser.cache.memory.capacity and browser.cache.memory.enable 22MB
browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers 20MB
config.trim_on_minimize (Windows only) all but 10MB when minimized
Thought I'd pass this along. :)

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:23 am
by RobertGonzalez
Thanks for the great resource. There are a lo of other good bits of information on that page as well.