My How-To: Correct Firefox memory Leakage
Taylor Flatt , Petersburg: Jun 16 2008
Made Popular Jun 18 2008

I know all of you who use FireFox 2 have noticed this problem. Well, the onces who have looked. When you have FF running with multiple pages up, you will notice the mass amount of memory it takes up while minimized. Well this how-to fixes the memory leakage.

1) Open Firefox
2) Go to Address bar (Type: about:config)
3) Then right click and select New > Boolean
4) In the box (Type: config.trim_on_minimize)
5) Hit Enter
6) Select True
7) Hit Enter
8) Restart Firefox

To test this out, to the above steps, open a page or two in firefox then bring up task manager. Then go into your processes locate the ff process, and note the memory amount. Then minimize firefox and view the memory in the tskmgr.

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