Think your computer is slowing when opening new programs? well follow this guide to use minimum usage with firefox
- On the website url toolbar type about:config
- A page full of words will come up. right click anywhere and choose New -> Boolean
- For the name input type “config.trim_on_minimize”
- Select True
- Restart FireFox.
- Ctrl + alt + del (this opens your task manager)
- Go to process and choose your Firefox process (usually called firefox.exe)
- Look at the Memory Usage Column (average is 20,000-40,000)
- Now minimise firefox and you will see the memory usage to be less than 10,000
January 25th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
whoa thnx man this made my computer much faster
January 26th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
this is sick made my usage drop from 70k to 40k!!! like half the usage. tyvm
January 26th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
happy it helped. For the other people that read/tried this plz reply and tell me if it works/did work. thnx
(cuz i heard it doesnt work for some people’s computer and i wanna know why)
January 27th, 2007 at 12:29 am
yup it works on my firefox
January 27th, 2007 at 12:30 am
umm borat guy..plz dont spam like that i just wanna know if it worked or not.
January 27th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
its works on my firefox too. (i like borat!!!)
January 27th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
firefox sux use opera
January 27th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
to megaman-plz dont post stuff like that. either -1)works or 2) dont work. other than tha just dont post.
January 28th, 2007 at 11:55 am
i can say what i want.
January 28th, 2007 at 11:56 am
you can say what you want. Now say if the guide worked or not.
January 28th, 2007 at 11:57 am
no
January 28th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
it works on my firefox now.
January 28th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
thank you megaman. all i needed was yes/no.
January 28th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
i dont get step 2 where do i clik? plz reply soon
January 28th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
You can click anywhere on the page. Preferably a blank spot. (right click)
January 29th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
ok thank for sharing this with us.
January 29th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
o yea. It works on my firefox 2.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
ok thanks for all the replys
January 31st, 2007 at 7:56 pm
np.ty 4 da guide
January 31st, 2007 at 11:20 pm
it works and works for all me mates 2.
January 31st, 2007 at 11:25 pm
yea im starlander’s mates and this lil trikc workd like a charm
February 1st, 2007 at 9:13 pm
just a reminder but please post if this worked for you or not.
February 1st, 2007 at 9:13 pm
i did man
February 2nd, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Works great for me on Firefox 1.5.0.9. Thanks!
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Totally worked! I’ve been having problems with viruses lately and been looking stuff up on the processlibrary and noticed that my firefox.exe process has been running higher than usual [68 thou. K].
My DSL modem’s light for internet and ethernet were blinking [indicating that I were using them] even though I wasn’t loading websites or anything. So I thought something was using the internet other than myself.
But anyways… Now my firefox.exe has lowered down just below 30 thou. K and I’m less suspicious. Thanks!
February 28th, 2008 at 9:01 am
It works like a hot knife on a butter. Thanks for the tip,John.
March 11th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Works wonderful. 200mb down to 70mb. Vista
November 21st, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Unfortunately, this no longer works with Firefox 3.
Anyone find any tweak for Firefox 3?
December 11th, 2008 at 4:31 am
Hey thanks, my firefox.exe mem usage dropped from 90000k to 45000k but now its climbing back up to 65000k…
I dont know why mine is so high. I only have a single window open.. Would you recommend anything? Do you think I have a virus? I am using firefox version 3.0.4
January 20th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Awesome, thank u!
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
works
June 1st, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Didn’t work for me… memory usage is still 110,284.
I don’t know what else to try.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:16 am
oh man….who ever posted dis 1….”U ROCK MAN”
i relli mean it !!
i t relli wrks for a prsn wid just 256 mb of RAM>
thanX again !!
GOD BLESS
September 29th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Worked for me for a short period of time but my memory usage went back up to where it was later the same day… :-/
October 14th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Oh that`s too BAD !!!
Does not work in my Vista PC
Any regarded idea ?
Tnx