Comments on: This May Help Your Firefox Memory Leak

By: M7

M7 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:48:47 +0000

Works on 6.0.2! The BEST hack for firefox ever. 160mb down to 9mb while minimized, to 77mb when maximized.

By: jim theo

jim theo — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:19:23 +0000

tried just these two and it worked great, thanks! there is another more comprehensive list of fixes elsewhere, feeling lazy, these two worked a charm! thanks

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:00:04 +0000

I see that you’re not gutsy enough to put in your name, yet you defend Firefox as not having a memory leak. Sorry, but I don’t believe you.
Here’s what I tried:
Open Firefox with extensions disabled
Minimize Firefox

After being minimized for 24 hours without browsing anywhere, FF memory usage steadily climbed from 86MB to 312MB.

If that isn’t a memory leak, I don’t know what you call it.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:59:20 +0000

Yeah doesn’t work with FF4. Im using up to 1.5gb of RAM sometimes.

By: Giovanni

Giovanni — Sun, 01 May 2011 06:08:27 +0000

LUCKY im using 600.000mb

By: amin

amin — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:16:14 +0000

I too!
Using Firefox 4.

By: Amitabh Pandey

Amitabh Pandey — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:49:03 +0000

Hello All,

I did this setting but looks like no use..I still see firefox using around 400+ MB Ram & there are 31 tabs are open.

thanks,
Amitabh

By: someguy

someguy — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:05:54 +0000

This is an illusion only. It does not change the allotted memory by a single byte. It just forces it to swap to disc, and waste time doing it. And don’t bother tinkering with history either. It’s really not worth it…

You are better off disabling addon to find the culprit

see here [kb.mozillazine.org] & [kb.mozillazine.org]

By: Tait

Tait — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:18:14 +0000

Outstanding. It worked for me. The usage dropped about 60% when minimized and maximized. Still trying to figure how to do this with Thunderbird. Thanks for the insight!

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:46:38 +0000

Beautiful!