ATTN: Firefox Users

[Fishy!]

There is a memory leak in firefox 1.0 that can cause it to use massive ammounts of ram(100-200 megs). This is because firefox has a tendancy to allocate the memory for itself, then forgets to free the memory up when it's done. There is an easy fix though.

*Open up the config panel by typing "about:config" into the address bar.

*Right click anywhere on the list and create a new interger called "browser.cache.memory.capacity"

*Set the value to 16384 for 16 megs (optimum). This limits firefox's memory usage by forcing it to dump the memory to the system page file.

*Restart firefox.

That's IT! Firefox should use no more than 35 megs of ram unless you have a lot of tabs open or something.http://www.saltcreep.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[Invigor]

:Contract: mine was set at 15000 however windows processes shows it eating 27mb...werd.

:beat-pute

[Asmodeus]

mine is eating up 32megs ,but i cant figure out this computer, i know how to get into the task manger and set the level of programs to run ,but this is not making any sense to me ..


what firefox are you guys using Im using fire fox 7.0 i think

[briansmyth]

Won't a newer version of Firefox handle this kind of thing?

[Asmodeus]

i just checked it its eating 72 megs

:thumbdown

[Invigor]

I find when you have a few tabs open at the same time, it really eats up the ram..but that's ok. It's still better than IE. maybe I should try mozilla or opera..

[Stasher]

I use Mozilla mail/browser client and have had no problems. I gave IE the boot about a year ago.

[Testyboy]

been running firefox for a few years here and never had a problem.