Firefox Memory Leak Workaround

Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell.

I saw a great tip today: by adding a simple preference in your Firefox configuration, you can tell Firefox to reduce its memory usage to 10 megabytes every time you minimize the application! This has worked very well for me - here's how you do it:

1. In the Firefox address bar, type about:config and press Enter.
2. Right-click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. A pop-up box will appear. Type config.trim_on_minimize and click OK.
4. Select True and click OK.

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