Browser Memory Usage

Nickface · Post by **Nickface** » April 20th, 2006, 20:54

What's a typical amount of memory a browser should be taking up at any given time? As of late, I've been hearing how Firefox becomes more and more of a memory hog the longer it's open, and I'm just getting concerned. I did go to the about:config page and tweak the "browse.sessionhistory" setting that everyone seems to have posted, but is there anything else I should be doing?

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » April 20th, 2006, 21:14

I saw one the other day that dumps the memory cache to disk when you minimize Firefox- I shall see if I can find it.

edit:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Config.trim_on_minimize

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 20th, 2006, 23:16

remember, firefox has lots of "feature" memory leaks

also, its cache will frag a HDD like no other, i often put it on a seprate partition.

Nickface · Post by **Nickface** » April 20th, 2006, 23:39

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » April 20th, 2006, 23:43

they actually said that, it apparently makes browsing faster