Fixing The Firefox Memory Leak

Posted on May 19th, 2007 by Jason

in case you didnt know Firefox has a small memory leakage problems that can cause your pc to freeze up. basically what happens is when you minimize Firefox it stops consuming memory, however when you maximize it again the memory usage will increase, sometimes even doubling. fortunately, there is a small fix that you can implement.
heres what you do:

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.

Firefox will stop eating your memory. more Firefox CAN be faster – 4 easy tricks. And How to Really reduce the memory usage in Firefox

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  1. C++ maniac on 01 Aug 2007 at 8:15 am #

    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.via

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  3. Neon Knight on 30 Jul 2007 at 4:11 pm #

    Helps, but not fixed.

  4. Jason on 30 Jul 2007 at 4:31 pm #

    everyone giving positive answer if you stay with us we can edit
    Thanks

  5. Joep on 30 Jul 2007 at 6:18 pm #

    I thought that this settings means firefox clears its cache, i.e. the history of currently opened tabs; that isn’t what a memory leak is, though.

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    All this does is make Firefox page out when minimised. It does not fix memory leaks.

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