I reviewed the RAMBack add-on for Firefox 3 yesterday which provided a function to clear RAM in Firefox 3 to avoid an steady increase of memory usage of Firefox during a session. The only thing that was not optimal was that the user had to press a button to clear the RAM. An automatic solution [...]
Free RAM in Firefox with RAMBack
Many users had a problem with memory usage in Firefox 2 and although Firefox 3 was further optimized it still seems to be a problem for some users. Something that I do not understand for instance is the problem that RAM usage of Firefox is always increasing over time but never decreasing much. I was [...]
Firefox Ultimate Optimizer
Would you use a program that would reduce the memory usage of Firefox to 100-200 Kilobyte ? I have no idea how the Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is reducing the memory usage to this amount but the task manager is verifying the reduction. Firefox has been using roughly 40 Megabytes of RAM whenever I started it and one homepage was loaded.
Firefox Memory Tweaks
Many users seem to have the feeling that the memory consumption of Firefox seems to get out of hand after a certain perdiod of continued web browsing. It is however not that easy to determine the exact cause that seems to slow down Firefox after a while. I try to give some insights in possible solutions to those slow downs – they might help in some cases but could change nothing in others.
