As many of you avid firefox users know one of the major disadvantages is that it uses an absurd amount of memory and can slow down your computer. Now this will not magically reduce its footprint on your system but it will attempt to ensure Firefox doesn’t slow your system down when it is minimized. The idea is to have it dump all its memory onto you hard drive when minimized and then reassign it to the memory when you bring it back up. It doesn’t require any installation and is pretty simple to enable/disable so you really don’t lose anything for trying it out.
To Do This:
- Open Firefox
- In the place you normally would type a website, type: about:config
- Once you browse to this page it will have a large list of items, right click anywhere on the list and create a New Boolean
- Title the Boolean
config.trim_on_minimize and hit enter and then select true - Restart Firefox and this should be done!
- In the future all you have to do is find the config.trim in the list and double clickk to enable/disable
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