Old Apr 10, 2006 | 02:27 AM
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Default For those experiencing a "memory leak" in firefox....

ib ie & ff bashing h:

if firefox is using more than 100+ megs of memory on your computer... try this "fix"

Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
Find, or search for browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers. Double click it, and set it to 0 (optional, prevents caching of pages for the back button)

Now Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
Now select True and then press Enter.
Restart Firefox.

What this does is move firefox to the page-file when minimized. memory usage drops down to 10, and settles back at ~60 megs or less when maximized again.

Try it.... you may notice a difference
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