Fix Your Firefox Memory Leak

[DudeAsInCool]

..somewhat...

This May Help Your Firefox Memory Leak

Now, this is by no means a REAL fix for the Firefox memory leak, but it certainly does appear to help it quite a bit. This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized. So far, from my experiences with using this today, when you maximize Firefox it will obviously increase the memory usage. However, it does not seem to go back up to the insane amount that it was at before minimizing it. For example, Firefox was at 180MB of memory usage and then I minimized it and after a few seconds I maximized it. After maximizing it and continuing on my routine business it appeared to only have gone up to 60MB. This seems to be a good solution for me right now since I frequently maximize and minimize Firefox anyways.

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[Shawn]

Thanks man.

How did you know my firefox had a memory leak? :D

[DudeAsInCool]

Thanks man.

How did you know my firefox had a memory leak? :D

Because mine moves about a quarter of the speed of my Safari browser :)

[Malicious Intent]

The leak is good. On mine it kicks in after about 2 days of constantly running, so acts as a good timer to let me know it is time to sleep.

[rainbowdemon]

Nice move!!

[Tiremonkey2000]

Worked great for me