Free Up FireFox Memory

Not sure if this will help others or not, but I saw a cool post on Life Hacker about how to Reduce Ram use in FireFox

In a Nutshell:

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.

I think LH has a link to a utility that you can use to do all that for you, but come on... its just a few keystrokes.

I was able to drop from 50 Meg of Memory in use with a few tabs running java applets down to 2 meg and the applets didn't seem to mind.

I have seen complaints that this stops FF from performing other tasks, so YMMV.

-jrj