Comments on: 5 Tips To Reduce Firefox Memory and Cache Usage

By: camnio

camnio — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:36:51 +0000

grrr.. why does it take so much memory. thanks for the post

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FireFox: Where hath my memory gone? « You Can’t Suck Enough — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:24:18 +0000

[...] = memory hog. And, it seems I’m not the only one complaining about this…there are even how-to’s dedicated to memory and Firefox! (I like the offline cache…512MB??) But, [...]

By: David

David — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:29:39 +0000

If you’re good with firefox extensions, you can use “Firebug > NET panel” and tell where those MP3 are downloaded from. All you need to do is then copy the link location and save the file directly.

By: mortenb

mortenb — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:20:50 +0000

All great, except I have a MP3 flash based player and I want to cache all my songs so they are not re-downloaded all the time. I usually set the cache to 2GBytes.

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Fedora 10 Optimized for HP Mini 1000 | blog.jayt.org — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:47:38 +0000

[...] firefox. I very highly recommend turning off the disk cache, in the very least. You may refer to this page to read about your [...]

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لینکهای امروز 16 آبان 87 (177 لینک) « لینکهای داغ از سراسر وب — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:54:06 +0000

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Firefox 3: Faster, Safer and Smarter Plus 15000 Fixes and Enhancements — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:38:29 +0000

[...] new features mentioned are not really new anyway. Perhaps the best improvement was in performance (firefox 2 can be a real memory hog) as firefox 3 now consumes less memory and memory management is executed more [...]

By: Abhishek Ravi

Abhishek Ravi — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:20:32 +0000

Thanks a lot mate, that certainly helped me a great deal. I am a victim of firefox eating a huge part of my ram (probably because of the number of tabs open} but the above steps have certainly reduced ram usage by firefox a great deal.

By: Klaw

Klaw — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:16:17 +0000

Or you could always use Firefox 3 Beta 5…