Comments on: How I did reduce Firefox Memory Consumption by 15 Megabytes

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:31:31 +0000

@exglade, “Firefox Ultimate Optimizer” seems to contain a sniffer. KIS 7 has confirmed this on download. What a pity!

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:21:24 +0000

Same here, over 60 extensions and 53MB at start (no page loaded). But I wish not to remove whatever extension, and on another hand setting browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0, though I load mainly pages in new tabs, may be bothering sometimes: I’ve set that value to 4 (instead of 8 as default for 1Mb RAM). What I do to recover memory if I really get too high is to simply minimize FF with config.trim_on_minimize set to true : radical!

By: vance

vance — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:21:22 +0000

I only have one extension on my ff3 beta 1 and still eating 66k to 80k..

By: exglade

exglade — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:03:34 +0000

Another way to reduce firefox memory effectively is using “Firefox Ultimate Optimizer”. It work find for me, may be you guys should try it. And GHack, thx for the tip.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:54:28 +0000

I maybe a bit old fashioned when it comes to RAM ;) I like to reduce memory consumption even though I have 2 Gigabytes as well.

By: Blackhouse

Blackhouse — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:49:03 +0000

This is great news for those who have a box which is low on memory. Though the newer generation of machines which is able to run stuff like Vista, 15mb is next to nothing. My machine has 2GB, which is reasonable if you look at the memory prices these days, 15MB of RAM is less than 1% and in the bigger picture my extensions will hardly influence how my machine runs.