While u surfing in mozilla firefox browser, the memory consumption of browser will increase drastically even more than 100 MB if u opens plenty of tabs of worked for a long time, and hence your system will slows down drastically.
To avoid this follow the following procedure.
Two factors affects firefox in increasing the memory,
all websites opened in tabs and windows occupy some memory space and this memory space remains even after minimizing the windows.
Eventhough firefox minimizes 50 recently visited websites in the main memory of the pc in orde to facilitate quick browsing through the sesion history.
so it saves the sites interior, to get rid of this saved sites and come over from memory constraint, follow the rules given below
1. Enter "about:config" in your address bar
2. search for ‘browser.sessionhistory.max_entries’ in the ‘Preference Name’ list and double-click on it to edit it.
3. Change the default setting ‘50′ to a considerably smaller number or even to ‘0′ and confirm with OK.
4. when you enter 1 or 5 you can still access the last visited websites since they are still available in the RAM.incidently, saving the history is not affected by this setting
5. You can also instruct Firefox to release the memory space that is no longer in use.
6. simply right-click on any space in the list of configuration settings and select the context command’New|Boolean’. Enter ‘config.trim_on_minimize’ and click ok.
Thats all, now your memory consumption for firefex is reduced.
