Tip - 5 Tips To Reduce Firefox Memory and Cache Usage

Sometimes I just feel that Firefox is such a memory hog. Once I start to open up a few extra tabs, it starts to slow down my whole system. Fortunately, you can do something about it. Here are simple tips and tricks to reduce firefox memory and cache consumption. Tip 1: Reduce session history browser.sessionhistory.max_entries determines the maximum number of pages in the browser's session history, i.e. the maximum number of URLs you can traverse purely through the Back/Forward buttons. The Default value is 50. We usually won't surf more than 5 of the websites we previously surfed before, and there is really no need to store more than that in the session which can clog up memory as they grow. 1. Open Firefox 2. Type about:config in the Firefox address bar 3. Press CTRL-F and search for browser.sessionhistory.max_entries 4. Double click on the value 50 (or whatever value is there currently) and change it to something lower such as 5. 5. Restart Firefox. For Firefox 1.5 and above, you
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