My firefox browser is eating up a lot of RAM memory. Can anyone help me to reduce it's consumption?

Question

My firefox browser is eating up a lot of RAM memory. Can anyone help me to reduce it's consumption?

Answer 1

most of the meat produced in this country has some or a lot of corn fed to them to grow ,giving that corn tastes we have been sold to love for years. For many years. When corn is grown the soil is left exposed,causing erosion. causing silt to clog up the rivers down to the Gulf of Mexico. If that is not bad enough,the Artificial Fertilizers ,Minerals ,weed killers,insecticides also go down the rivers into the Gulf of Mexico killing the Sea life. The Corn nation is creating a Giant dead zone that keeps growing in the Gulf. It is not the fault of the meat. What is at fault is what we feed the meat and how. This is changing called organic.It is a Slow process.The organic idea stated when we began to farm. However the American way had a better idea that did not include organic. So now you and I are now experiencing the effects this American way of changing while we pay for it. We will be organic soon. There will be a bit time before this happens. An example 5 miles from where I live a Farmer has chickens in pens that he moves around on his farm. The chickens eat what ever they find,that is what wild birds do. He gets double/triple the price for his organic eggs that commercial egg producers do. His milk ,meat is organic also double ,triple in price you buy fresh off the farm. As a Child I grew up eating wholesome foods as this.

Answer 2

Try these links - they worked for me:

http://www.download.com/Optimizing-Firefox/1200-20_4-5159142.html

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/reduce-memory-usage-in-firefox.html

Answer 3

CLOSE OTHER PROGRAS DOWN WHILE ON FIREFOX

Answer 4

Firefox has had this "memory leak" problem for years and can't seem to fix it.



Anyway, Firefox is crap.



It is very overrated, used mostly by pimply faced male adolescent fanboys, who are badly in need of a girlfriend.



Read the truth--Firefox Myths:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html

Answer 5

Firefox dynamically assigns memory cache usage. To reduce memory consumption, you could specify the memory cache capacity yourself, do it by first typing 'about:config' (without quotes) in the Firefox address bar and add a new preference(right click on the about:config page and select new-> integer) and name it as browser.cache.memory.capacity and specifiy the integer value in KB ...however this should depend on the amount of physical RAM you got. For 384 MB RAM this should be between 5500 and 7000. So experiment with the memory cache capacity and see what works best for you. You could also hike it upto 8000 or more and test.



Not to mention, the changes will be reflected and seen when u type 'about:cache?device=memory' (without quotes) in address bar. Here you can see the max storage size, storage in use..etc...



Also, add another preference(if you wish) , right click on about:config page and select new->boolean. type in config.trim_on_minimize as the preference name and set it as 'true' . This tweak is for lowering down firefox memory usage when you minimize it.



Another memory tweak is to reduce memory usage by affecting the back and forward browsing, read about this from here http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers



Also if you use too many extensions , disable some of them temporarily. That'll reduce some of the memory usage. If you don't know already, disable them by clicking Tools-> Add-ons-> Extensions->Here select the addon which you don't require all the time and hit 'disable'. The addons themselves can pose a memory leak issue. Also upgrade to the latest stable version of firefox.(2.0.0.3). The article about problematic and memory hogging extensions is here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions



Finally, restarting firefox after certain periods of time could also help windows recover some of the RAM thereby preventing sluggish performance by your PC and also by firefox.



You can't do anything more than this. Lastly,as an answerer pointed out, the memory leak issue has plagued firefox right from the start.However its getting better in newer builds.



GoodLuck