drift101
05-06-2009, 02:42 AM
I hate to admit this but sometimes I really suspect the slowness of my browsing experience comes from heavy memory usage by my Firefox, and there is nothing to replace good-ol-firefox. I need to open too many tabs and cannot afford buggy Internet Explorer. Stumbled upon Techbuzz, Thilaks show a way how reduce memory usage in Mozilla Firefox. Ive tried it and think it helps a lot.
How to reduce memory usage in Mozilla Firefox
Type
about:config in the Firefox address bar
Search for browser.sessionhistory.max_entries
Double click on the value 50, change it to something lower, 5 should be good.
What this means?
Averagely we surf less than 5 of the websites we previously surfed before, there is no need to use up that much memory (which is 50 by default).
How to reduce memory usage in Mozilla Firefox
Type
about:config in the Firefox address bar
Search for browser.sessionhistory.max_entries
Double click on the value 50, change it to something lower, 5 should be good.
What this means?
Averagely we surf less than 5 of the websites we previously surfed before, there is no need to use up that much memory (which is 50 by default).