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TIP-how to minimize your firefox memory usage

Think your computer is slowing when opening new programs? well follow this guide to use minimum usage with firefox

  1. On the website url toolbar type about:config
  2. A page full of words will come up. right click anywhere and choose New -> Boolean
  3. For the name input type "config.trim_on_minimize"
  4. Select True
  5. Restart FireFox.
  6. Ctrl + alt + del (this opens your task manager)
  7. Go to process and choose your Firefox process (usually called firefox.exe)
  8. Look at the Memory Usage Column (average is 20,000-40,000)
  9. Now minimise firefox and you will see the memory usage to be less than 10,000

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Comments (27)
#1 by smack tat, Jan 25, 2007
whoa thnx man this made my computer much faster
#2 by stoned guy, Jan 26, 2007
this is sick made my usage drop from 70k to 40k!!! like half the usage. tyvm
#3 by john anthons, Jan 26, 2007
happy it helped. For the other people that read/tried this plz reply and tell me if it works/did work. thnx
(cuz i heard it doesnt work for some people's computer and i wanna know why)
#4 by marsta, Jan 27, 2007
yup it works on my firefox
#5 by john anthons, Jan 27, 2007
umm borat guy..plz dont spam like that i just wanna know if it worked or not.
#6 by mike, Jan 27, 2007
its works on my firefox too. (i like borat!!!)
#7 by megaman101, Jan 27, 2007
firefox sux use opera
#8 by john anthons, Jan 27, 2007
to megaman-plz dont post stuff like that. either -1)works or 2) dont work. other than tha just dont post.
#9 by megaman101, Jan 28, 2007
i can say what i want.
#10 by john anthons, Jan 28, 2007
you can say what you want. Now say if the guide worked or not.
#11 by megaman101, Jan 28, 2007
no
#12 by megaman101, Jan 28, 2007
it works on my firefox now.
#13 by john anthons, Jan 28, 2007
thank you megaman. all i needed was yes/no.
#14 by sarah, Jan 28, 2007
i dont get step 2 where do i clik? plz reply soon
#15 by john anthons, Jan 28, 2007
You can click anywhere on the page. Preferably a blank spot. (right click)
#16 by sarah, Jan 29, 2007
ok thank for sharing this with us.
#17 by sarah, Jan 29, 2007
o yea. It works on my firefox 2.
#18 by john anthons, Jan 30, 2007
ok thanks for all the replys
#19 by marsta, Jan 31, 2007
np.ty 4 da guide
#20 by starlander, Jan 31, 2007
it works and works for all me mates 2.
#21 by gbounce, Jan 31, 2007
yea im starlander's mates and this lil trikc workd like a charm
#22 by john anthons, Feb 1, 2007
just a reminder but please post if this worked for you or not.
#23 by megaman 101, Feb 1, 2007
i did man
#24 by Stevie, Feb 2, 2007
Works great for me on Firefox 1.5.0.9. Thanks!
#25 by Pixel--Play @GaiaOnline, Feb 22, 2008
Totally worked! I've been having problems with viruses lately and been looking stuff up on the processlibrary and noticed that my firefox.exe process has been running higher than usual [68 thou. K].
My DSL modem's light for internet and ethernet were blinking [indicating that I were using them] even though I wasn't loading websites or anything. So I thought something was using the internet other than myself.
But anyways... Now my firefox.exe has lowered down just below 30 thou. K and I'm less suspicious. Thanks!
#26 by Solaris Starscream, Feb 28, 2008
It works like a hot knife on a butter. Thanks for the tip,John.
#27 by Petras, Mar 11, 2008
Works wonderful. 200mb down to 70mb. Vista
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