June 27, 2008

Reduce the memory consumption in Firefox

Posted in Firefox | Tags: Firefox, firefox 3

As much as like my Firefox, and more that you think is the best browser of the moment is a point where clearly lost with Opera in memory consumption.

Firefox when run over a long period of time and with many open tabs, or may not need so much, it is an application that consumes a lot of memory to the system.

To reduce the memory consumption considerably in Firefox follow these steps:

# 1 - Type about: config in the address bar of your Firefox.

# 2 - Search for browser.sessionhistory.max_entries.

# 3 - Modify the default value is 50 to 5.

This value refers to the number of pages stored by the browser to be able to make the kick, this function takes a lot of memory so you are advised to keep a low number.
I already applied this tip in my browser a few days ago and noticed an obvious reduction of memory.

What do you think?

9 Comments to "Reduce the memory consumption in Firefox"

June 27, 2008 at 2:48 pm
ThunderWolf in diHITT User says:
Reduce the memory consumption in Firefox ...
As much as like my Firefox, and more that you think is the best browser of the moment is a point where clearly lost with Opera in memory consumption.
Firefox when running over a long period of time and with many separate ...
June 27, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Marcal says:

I liked the hint and I'm testing.
Thanks!
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June 28, 2008 at 4:50 pm
MoorpheuSs says:
I try! I hope it works, after all 132MB memory occupied by FireFox is shot! ,-D
July 1, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Qian Qin says:
I use this ( 'Firefox extension ... RAMBack manually frees up memory from Firefox to keep your favorite web browser running light ...') and it works like a dream ...
July 2, 2008 at 2:46 am
ThunderWolf says:

I have been using the addon, thanks for the tip.
July 11, 2008 at 11:16 am
Reduce the memory footprint of Firefox | Corto Cabelo e Pinto says:
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July 11, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Thomas says:
then yes huh ...
very good it!
January 5, 2009 at 11:33 am
Firefox says:
This is a feature that really needs to be tested, is apparently a great extent.
Hug ...
August 24, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Sérgio Luiz Araújo Silva says:
In the new firefox 3.5 also should disable the color profiles improved memory intensive:
Turn the key "gfx.color_management.mode"
to zero
who uses linux disable pango the library:
echo "export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO = 1">> ~ /. bashrc