Firefox Tip of the Day
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Firefox Tip of the Day
Nov 2, 2005 • {"login"=>"fuzzyblog", "email"=>"[email protected]", "display_name"=>"fuzzyblog", "first_name"=>"Scott", "last_name"=>"Johnson"}
Noel, one of the sys admins here at Feedster, just let me know this:
If you minimize Firefox, it will (automagically) reclaim memory that it's no longer using.
Apparently this is a workaround for the Firefox bug where it doesn't reclaim memory for tabs that you've closed (a long time FireFox / Mozilla bug I've blogged about in the past). Now when Noel told me this, I immediately tried it and saw my memory usage go from 153 megs* to 52 megs. Awesome. Thanks Noel. (Oh and this works in Thunderbird also so I strongly recommend minimizing your Firefox and Thunderbird windows every few hours).
* Yes I'm a Tabaholic. I'm currently searching for a support group on this. Please contact me if you have suggestions.
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(That's like 25 tabs in one browser window and 5 browser windows open total; I do have issues)
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