The secrets of about:config - part6
August 08, 2007 by Jason
Stop memory hogging
The default way the Windows version of Firefox consumes memory can be alarming if you don’t know what’s really going on. People routinely report a memory “footprint” of 75MB to 100MB or more with only a few windows or tabs open, and they assume a memory leak is to blame. While earlier versions of Firefox did have memory leak bugs, they’re not the reason for this kind of memory consumption in Firefox 2.x.
Here’s what’s happening: Firefox caches recently used objects Web pages, images in memory so that they can be re-rendered on-screen quickly, which drives up memory usage. Read More»
