Solution for Firefox Memory Leak

http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/03/26/this-may-help-your-firefox-memory-leak/
Yesterday I found this on internet. I tried it for sometime and it did work but only when firefox is minimized. However still I have to evaluate it fully so I can,t say it is successful for me or not?

 

You do also have to realize that some of the memory overhead is caused/created by extensions. Test the memory usage in both regular and "FF Safe Mode" modes and you should see a difference, some extensions cause rather excessive spikes.

Steve

 

Ok, I will try this, but how I can reverse back these settings told in this article.

 

Right-click on config.trim_on_minimize and choose reset. For the other tweak mention regarding caching back pages, just change the value back to the original (-1) from the new value of 0.

 

aigle;
This is a link to MozillaZine with different solutions to the memory-usage problem.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=354828

Regards
Lamehand

 

One person in another forum has written this about this fix.

"There isn't a memory leak. It's actually Firefox's cache which stores the last 5 pages you visited. If you have a lot of tabs open, then that multiplies the number of pages stored which makes it take up a lot of memory. That fix just makes it so previously viewed pages aren't stored which may actually decrease performance if you use the back and forward buttons alot."

 

Thanks.

 

Ah, I found same tip here as well. So it,s not something new or special.

 

they talk about the memory leak in the podcast i posted in the other thread, he said it's the caching too. you could try disabling it.

or use something like TCPView to see what's happening when you browse, then when you see active connections being made after the page has loaded you'll know it's cacheing sites. and/or you can look up the addresses/IPs with one of these standalone tools, if the IP is to a link from the page you are on you have 'caught' firefox redhanded they are fun to play with too.

it would probably be best to use google to test this, then the cached pages won't be from the same site and the IPs will be clearly different

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