Reduce firefox memory usage

Most, if not all, Firefox users know that our favorite browser is a memory hog! It consumes a lot of your computer system’s resources.

I’ve been searching for the solution on how to reduce the memory use of firefox. I’ve followed all the modifications in the about:config. It worked.. but not entirely..

Now here’s a gem i found. Its called Firefox Ultimate Optimizer.. and it really is an ultimate optimizer!

I’ve been using this to free up memory being used by firefox since January this year and i’m surprised that i haven’t blogged about it yet.

Oh.. the best part.. Its FREE!

Here’s a look at firefox before using Firefox ultimate optimizer.

Here’s what happened after

I haven’t had any problems in using this great gadget!

Try it!

You can download it from here or here.

April 14, 2008 - Posted by migs | Computers, Information Technology, Internet | firefox, firefox memory leak, firefox ultimate optimizer, free firefox memory | 18 Comments

18 Comments »

Thanks for the heads up, Migs..I use Firefox now instead of IE7 and this info is good to know. =)

Comment by Dean | April 14, 2008
Great post, Migs! And good find!

Comment by Blogie | April 14, 2008
welcomes!

Comment by migs | April 14, 2008
Btw, the second link you provided? It lets you download the Optimizer for free… but it has adware attached.

Comment by Blogie | April 14, 2008
awwww.. thanks for the info brader…

Comment by migs | April 14, 2008
cool tool. i’m going to use it now.

Comment by Winston | April 14, 2008
the application reduces the RAM usage. The drawback, it swaps the RAM usage to your VM. Thus, it results to more CPU and hard disk activity.

Comment by Winston | April 14, 2008
with that drawback, would you still recommend it wins?

Comment by bariles | April 14, 2008
as i’ve pointed out above, i haven’t experienced any problems with it..

maybe someone could explain these effects - swapping of ram and VM.

Comment by migs | April 14, 2008
When Firefox 3 is released…. the browser will significantly reduce memory usage by default.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/#performance

Comment by remerico | April 14, 2008
Switch to Firefox 3.0 and thank yourself later for it.

http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/

Comment by Fx3 | April 14, 2008
I really hope they’d release firefox 3 the sooonest!

Comment by migs | April 14, 2008
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I tried firefox 3, and it still hogs memory resources…. this is a very good software… kudos to the creators….

Comment by trace | April 15, 2008
ever since i updated my firefox to razor-sharp latest version, i find memory-dragging activities have been happening quite often, i just find it busy to fix this small things, good to know there’s someone’s there to search things for us

keep it up dude, you’re doing nice and yo, get a domain will you?!

Comment by vertito | April 16, 2008
wow, just downloaded it, BAD NEWS, it would run on windows only can’t do use from my desktop huhuhu

Comment by vertito | April 16, 2008
thanks a lot! i will try this! great post!

Comment by vergel | April 19, 2008
>need help!
>error occurred!
>”application failed to initialized click OK to terminate..”
>can anyone figure this error?
>thanks in advance…

Comment by vergel | April 21, 2008