When Firefox first hit the scene there were so many reasons to love it!
It was FREE, fast and lots of plug-ins for it. As of late, it's gotten to be quite the RAM hog and ends up slowing your computer down.
So let me give you a few tips to take back some of that speed that you once had!
First things first, sometimes you just need to close it and reopen it....sometimes it's just that easy.
That doesn't work all the time, so what we're going to do it tweak the settings so that it uses less RAM.
1. Open Firefox and type in about:config in the address bar.
2. Type browser.cache.memory.enable in the Filter Bar and make sure it is enabled. If not, just double click it to set it to enable.
3. Right-click an area of empty space in the browser and choose New > Integer. Type in browser.cache.memory.capacity and click OK.
The integer value you enter depends on the amount of RAM you have.
If you have:
256 MB of RAM, enter “4096”
512 MB of RAM, enter “8192”
1 GB of RAM, enter “16384”
and so forth… Just double the number as your RAM doubles.
(I use 8192 even though I have far more RAM than that.)
4. Right-click anywhere on the window and click New > Bootlean and enter:
config.trim_on_minimize
And set it to true. When you minimize an application in Windows Vista, the memory usage is supposed to go down but Firefox doesn’t do this. By setting this to true, Firefox will begin to use less memory when minimized.
5. Restart Firefox for these changes to apply.
