Comments on: This May Help Your Firefox Memory Leak

By: Mozilla Lover

Mozilla Lover — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:36:29 +0000

Nice .

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By: sivas

sivas — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:18:30 +0000

very good, thank you

By: Gamelux

Gamelux — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:00:05 +0000

Using FF3/Ubuntu and not working.

By: Ric

Ric — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:53:19 +0000

Using FF3 and not working either, but maybe it’s a Vista 64 issue as I’m sure it works on my XP machine at home.

By: SP

SP — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:12:42 +0000

Doesn’t work for me in FF3

By: Dino

Dino — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:58:05 +0000

Can this hack be used with FF3? i had trouble doing searches. ram usage boost to 200mb with 5 tabs open.

By: Kuroi

Kuroi — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:47:29 +0000

It really works! Thanks for sharing this one.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:19:00 +0000

[div id=commentquote]Kevin wrote:

I loved this feature on my old XP machine, but it’s not working at all on my new Vista one. I’m assuming it’s a problem only with Vista. I followed the directions to a T, just like I did on XP, and there’s no change upon minimization. This was my favorite thing to ease the Firefox bloat.

[/div] Vista reports memory usage differently than XP does, and so it is likely that it's still working but you don't see any differences in the Task Manager.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:56:38 +0000

I loved this feature on my old XP machine, but it’s not working at all on my new Vista one. I’m assuming it’s a problem only with Vista. I followed the directions to a T, just like I did on XP, and there’s no change upon minimization. This was my favorite thing to ease the Firefox bloat.

By: Dragos

Dragos — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:49:04 +0000

Wow! It is awsome! Right as you said!

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By: Doody

Doody — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:23:32 +0000

I’ve been using Firefox for 2 years now and it took me a lot of effort to stick with it at the beginning. But now I’ve had it with this junk browser; don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of features that I admire and cannot live without but when it comes down to being a system hug, nothing beats Firefox. It doesn’t load pages with ample amount of comments i.e. this page or any page that has 100’s of comments on it. To the contrary, IE 6+ loads the same page in less than a second. I don’t know if the browser attempts to reconnect for every piece or just have a down right inadequate “rendering” capability. Most of the plug-ins such as Adobe Acrobat go haywire or crash FF after every update. I’ve had FF 1.0 up to 2.0.0.10 at this very moment and they all, without an exception, leak memory to the point where I have to utilize that redundant minimization technique. I’ve tried to turn off most of the plug-ins and what not in vain. There is no use…

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Sunday Links - Nov 18 Edition | GearFire Student Productivity — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:58:16 +0000

[...] If you are a serious tab-user like me, you may notice your Firefox becomes a huge memory hog after a couple minutes of switching back and forth between tabs. Here is a old but useful hack that will reduce memory usage! [...]

By: Kennet

Kennet — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:21:25 +0000

Fantastic!
7 tabs open – went from 111MB to 8.5MB
Very nice!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:41:36 +0000

this option allows windows to SWAP out the memory. to the swap file. its still using the same amount of memory. still, good for people with tiny amounts of ram.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:40:03 +0000

You’re completely right. The easiest way to bring up the Task Manager is to just right-click on the Taskbar and select the respective option. Then just look for Firefox in the processes list.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:24:35 +0000

I assume I can check the mem usage by going to the task manager, but if my assumption is incorrect, where do I go to find it? Vista Home Premium

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Light a flame under Firefox’s memory usage | Dao By Design Blog — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:10:36 +0000

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