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Firefox needs 1 GB of RAM

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20261931 views
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I work as a web developer and for that I'm using Firefox with Firebug. Recently, I have noticed that after two hours of work, the process needed more than 1 GB of my working memory! Even if I close the window, the process still remains in Task Manager and the only thing I can do is to 'kill' the pr…

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firefox.exe

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Fix for: Firefox needs 1 GB of RAM

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It sounds like two separate problems. First, Firefox is known to be a memory hog. There are ways to keep this to a minimum, including getting rid of addons you don't need, as well as this: In about:config, add a new Boolean value named config.trim_o…

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