User:Nixeagle/Firefox

This page is only tangentially related to Wikipedia.

Some of Wikipedia's editors use Firefox as their primary browser for editing Wikipedia. Unfortunatly as we Firefox users know, it chews computer memory like a drunkard goes through beer. As such I've done a bit of hunting around Google and other places and I have found some interesting solutions to the problem. To save others the hassle, and to allow more time for work on the encyclopedia I have made a short listing below of useful tips to check out.

Clear memory on minimizing Firefox
This makes it so that Firefox quits releases cached memory on minimize. This is nice for when it starts sucking 50% of your memory, but you don't want to close it because you are in the middle of an edit or you don't want to close chatzilla.
 * 1) type in 'about:config' in Firefox's navigation box. (the thing that has the address of this page)
 * 2) right click in the main screen, you should get a popup.
 * 3) click new -> boolean
 * 4) Name it 'config.trim_on_minimize'
 * 5) Set it to true
 * 6) restart firefox
 * note tested only on v 2.0.x