9 Responses

1. Marcello Corno

   March 23rd, 2007 at 4:57 am

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   Hi, tried looking for that setting, but it doesn’t show up.
   I have the browser.cache.memory.enable set to false, so i guess cache is disable. Nonetheless FF tends to suck up huge amounts of memory (especially if i open many tags) until it becomes so slow i need to restart it.

   M

2. Alex

   March 23rd, 2007 at 8:40 am

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   If the key’s not there you can create it by right clicking anywhere in the about:config page.

   Then in the context menu select New -> Integer.

   Enter browser.cache.memory.capacity in the dialog box and set the integer value.

   That should do it.

3. Chup

   March 31st, 2007 at 6:52 pm

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   Wow! It works! Thanks!

4. Alex

   April 1st, 2007 at 11:28 pm

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   Yey! It works!

5. Firefox Quick Tip: Purge Your Cache Instantly with Cache Status

   July 9th, 2007 at 6:01 pm

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   [...] One of the things that turn people off from Firefox is it’s tendency to be a resource hog. There are several ways to address this. One is not to max out Firefox - just keepin. Another way is to limit the number of add-ons activated at a given time. Or you can do these RAM tweaks. [...]

6. Erik A.

   October 24th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

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   I think you will find that everyone who complains uses Gmail or some other AJAX program that is “always on”. Firefox fails to release memory of temporary objects and iframes whose src attribute was loaded via Javascript. I don’t think any config setting will help. It’s a design issue. Javascript src updates should be treated differently. And pragma nocache responses should also apply to browser memor of objects.

7. linuxamp

   November 19th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

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   The title is a bit misleading. As you can see from the name of the setting, this does not actually limit Firefox RAM usage but Firefox’s cache RAM usage. While the cache RAM usage may account for a majority of Firefox’s total RAM usage on some machines, there are many other areas that may continue to consume memory beyond this limit even after adjusting this setting. For instance loading too many or poorly developed extensions can also lead to high RAM use.

8. enigma

   April 9th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

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   I suggest people look for enigma browser and download it from http://store.democratz.org

   You can find the link just above the products and you can download it for free.

   Engima runs faster than Firefox and you can easily run 32 tabs and not slow down the machine.

9. anon

   June 23rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm

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   The post about Enigma : disregad as propaganda to what could be a virus ridden utility. Reason : its a shell for IE not a true standalone browser - lamass poster!! Google engima for yourselves to see postings about this fake