If you're Firefox fan just like me, and like to keep 101 tabs open all
the time, you probably noticed - no matter even if you have 8GB or more
RAM on your super-duper PC how Firefox tends to eat up more than 1GB of
it very easily, even the newest versions with all the memory reduction
techniques implemented.
That Firefox developers are missing something
regarding it's memory usage was definitely proved when I ran into a
small utility called Firemin
and installed it. WOW, almost 1GB went down to only 15-20MB!! Since I
wanted to make sure it is compatible with all of my installed add-ons
(about 60 of them) I tried it for several days and I'm really thrilled
about it and would strongly suggest anyone using Firefox to try it out.
For more tech oriended visitors I'll just mention Firemin uses a save
Microsoft API (EmptyWorkingSet) to force Firefox to release some of the
reserved memory without causing stability problems.
Firemin is working like a Firefox wrapper, so you need to run it before
starting Firefox. I suggest you to put a shortcut to Firemin in Startup
folder and then you'll be free to launch Firefox whenever you like.
Definitely a worth to try and usable utility that is actually doing what
it should do.
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