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    Mozilla Firefox consumes lots of memory

    hi,

    I'd been using Internet explorer as my internet browser. But currently, I've switched over to Firefox due to its several features and advantages. I've noticed, other features being fine, Firefox consumes lots of memory and also sometimes slows down while surfing....I want to ask how can I prevent or reduce this memory consumption and thereby improve the performance ?

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    Re: Mozilla Firefox consumes lots of memory

    There might be some issue with the settings of firefox borwser.
    So to resolve this issue try to Uninstall and reinstall the mozilla firefox on your computer this will solve your issue .

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    Re: Mozilla Firefox consumes lots of memory

    One of the ways to improve the performance is to control animations with about:config --

    • Type about:config into your Firefox address bar and hit Enter.
    • One easy configuration change is limiting animated images.
    • Double-click image.animation_mode and change it to ‘none’ to stop all animated images, or ‘once’ to let them run through once.
    • You can revert to the default behavior with ‘normal’.

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    Re: Mozilla Firefox consumes lots of memory

    Firefox has a special “Back-Forward cache” for recently visited pages that works differently than the regular browser cache. The default setting for browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers, “-1,” will save up to 8 pages if you have more than 512MB RAM on your PC. Reduce the number to zero for maximum memory savings.

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    Re: Mozilla Firefox consumes lots of memory

    Sometimes, user installs a lot of themes, plug-ins, and extensions which will cause their Firefox consume a lot of memory. It is highly recommend that user uninstall unnecessary themes and plug-ins in order to reduce the memory usage.

    Normally firefox will take around 80MB of memory after you open a few tabs. But after you "released the memory", it will only take around 20-30MB.

    Steps:
    1 Launch Mozilla Firefox
    2 Key in about:config in the address bar.
    3 Right click at the content (anywhere) and choose New->Boolean.
    4 In the textbox, type config.trim_on_minimize and press OK.
    5 Set the value to true, and press OK.
    6 Restart firefox to take effect.

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    Re: Mozilla Firefox consumes lots of memory

    On an average we surf less than 5 of the websites we previously surfed before, there is no need to use up that much memory (which is 50 by default).
    To change this - Type about:config in the Firefox address bar. Then, search for browser.sessionhistory.max_entries. Finally, double click on the value 50, change it to the lower value (say 5).

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