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Firefox Memory Usage
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I run adblock on this netbook to conserve bandwidth and keep speeds up as it's running on 3G.
I don't at home because I recognise that it is advertising that pays for most of the content on the web and if everbody blocked every ad then a huge chunk of the web would simply vanish.0 -
Ah so that's what it does - I thought it caused FF to run through a routine to free up unwanted memory blocks. I just used task manager to look at it and that just says "memory used" rather than unpaged memory.It's quite a simple change that just allows Windows to swap the memory Firefox is utilising from RAM to the pagefile when it's minimised, which has the drawback that it will incur a slight delay when it's restored.
It takes quite a while to build up used memory again though so that suggests to me that FireFox probably doesn't free up memory when it maybe could.0 -
Does this help?0
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Ive done the about:config tweak and another 1 posted to on here and its now come down alot, its now down to about 182,3920
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