 Well by now as popular as the Firefox browser is you would think that Mozilla or the Open Source community would have fixed the gaping memory leak that occurrs when you run Firefox with any amount of extensions or if you have more than a couple of tabs open.
This little tweak does not get rid of the memory leak but it might help you control it a bit. Here is what we will be doing. We are going to set Firefox so that when it is minimized it releases memory instead of sitting there continuing to hoard it and become bloated. The first thing you will need to do is open a blank tab like the one to the left and type in "about:config" without the quotation marks and hit enter. Next you need to put the following in the filter window "config.trim_on_minimize" if you already have this setting then all you need to do is choose "True" instead of the default "False"  If you do not have this setting then you will see nothing after you enter it in the filter window. This means that you will need to create this entry. You can do this by right clicking in the blank middle field of the window and choosing "New" and then "Boolean".
 In the popup window you will need to enter "config.trim_on_minimize" and click ok.
 Finally you will need to choose "true" and click ok. Once you close and restart the browser it will be good to go.
Labels: Firefox
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