Saves memory usage in Firefox at the time Minimize

[solin]

Type: about: config in the address bar, then Click the button I'll be careful, I promise.


Right-click and then select:

New -> Boolean


Then type:

config.trim_on_minimize and click OK



Select an option to True in the dialog box from config.trim_on_minimize boolean value. then click OK

Restart Firefox


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[leofelix]

Thank you solin
useful tip

more informations here

here
and here

[safeguy]

I've known this back in the days..it's one trick that is useful in certain scenarios. It doesn't harm to give it a try and see how it works on yours...

[paf]

Thank you very much for sharing and for all your hard work, Solin. Cheers .

[INDRANIL]

Thanks for the share .

[Boyfriend]

Thanks solin for sharing I am already following guides pointed out by leofelix (+ few more tricks) to reduce memory usage in Firefox.

[Neo]

what changes does it do ?

[solin]

If less subject to change. You can try this http://www.memoryimprovemaster.com/. you try to look at the task manager.

[zemoura]

Nice tip, thanks for the share.

[safeguy]

Try MemoryFox add-on...it comes from the same person who created AFOM add-on (which no longer works on the latest release) which I was fond of last time. Unfortunately, this works on Windows only since it runs an executable named AFOM.exe from your firefox profile folder.