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By perfectknight (0) on 17th March 2008

Article: Reduce the RAM used by Firefox when its minimized.

Lets say you are playing a multiplayer online game like warcraft or counter strike and you keep checking for servers on private gaming sites and other forums using firefox. Depending on the amount of ram and graphic settings of your system and the amount of graphic details in the game a little bit of more RAM is always welcome. So the trick I am about to share transfers all the data from the RAM to the HDD till Firefox remains minimized. Here is how to do it.

Step 1: Type about:config into your location bar and hit Enter.

Step 2: In about:config, right-click on the new page and select New | Boolean.

Step 3: In the pop-up window, type in config.trim_on_minimize and hit enter.

Step 4: In the next pop-up window, select True and hit enter.

Step 5: Restart the browser.

This hack really does wonders but it seems due to adding new extensions it slowly starts using more memory in the minimized state after a period of time.

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