Comments on: How to reduce Firefox memory usage to 300kb

By: Heartburn Home Remedy

Heartburn Home Remedy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:16:34 +0000

Not that I’m totally impressed, but this is a lot more than I expected for when I stumpled upon a link on Furl telling that the info is awesome. Thanks.

By: h

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:00:01 +0000

‘Firefox Ultimate Optimizer’ is a fake because it pretends to reduce memory usage but if you check the total amount of usage memory of all running processes, you’re gonna see that it has increased.

By: External Hard Drive Reviews

External Hard Drive Reviews — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:25:38 +0000

Using such a hdd will definitely save my data in safety :)

By: Satisfied customer

Satisfied customer — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:23:42 +0000

This works great. Not only that but it is free. Wonderful. Five Stars. A+.
The 300 kb is however slightly deceiving because it does take about 1500 to run the optimizer. Overall huge improvement. Thanks.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:08:18 +0000

And, good GOD!! PLEASE do not make some witty comeback telling me what Microsoft says is “recommended” and “minimum” memory. Those figures are part of Microsoft FUD. Unfamiliar with the term? Use GOOGLE. Stop being losers. This is 2009, not 1999. Reality check, aisle 6!

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:03:01 +0000

Buy some memory, you cheap bastids!! Compaq and Dell have been selling loser systems to loser consumers for years now, claiming than 128 MB of memory is “adequate”. They are totally WRONG!! The MINIMUM memory for WinXP is 512 MB. Recommended memory is 1 GB. Max is 4 GB, unless you have 64 bit version, in which case you can install all that your mainboard will recognize. Memory is cheap these days. Increase physical memory, limit virtual memory to about 1/2 of your total physical memory, and you’ll be happy as a pig in shit.

By: yannlh

yannlh — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:55:50 +0000

Chrome is not the solution at all: it creates one process for each tab and, when you sum up the total amount of physical memory all of those processes use (easy as they are all called Chrome), you can find a total that’s even higher than with Firefox 3. Now the good news is that Minimem will minimize this very well: just select Chrome once and all processes will be adressed, and you can even optionally not minimize RAM usage for the one page you are currently viewing which makes Minimem very appropriate for Chrome.

By: Stallman

Stallman — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:53:48 +0000

Chrome..it’s the solution.

By: yannlh

yannlh — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:43:38 +0000

You may want to try this tool as well, called Minimem: http://minimem.kerkia.net. It does the same but more:
- Can optimize other apps too
- Smaller footprint though it does more
- User-defined frequency of memory reduction
- … and it’s not referenced as adware by Kaspersky!
I use it on my old computer and it works like a charm with Firefox and a few more apps.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:04:03 +0000

wow, you guys diss this, but it helped me atronomically! firefox made it so when I was surfing, i couldn’t watch ANYTHING on the side, or do much of anything. Now I can move a 7 gb floyd disconography to my external hard-drive, watch a shitty action movie, download at 500kb a second on utorrent, and surf the web all on a shitty eight year old dell 4300 S, yes the compact and less powerful version, maybe my cpu will fry, but ill be multi-tasking up the wazzoo till then…