Friday, December 28, 2007

Firefox is Memory Leaking..

How many of you (of course people who don't shut down their PC and redefine Load testing) have seen your Firefox shooting up to 500 MB of memory (I am wondering what it used to be in the days when 64 MB was the common standard for RAM). I know it sucks when your favorite browser (Favorite more coz it's open source and of course extensible) sucks up your RAM and leaves you with too less physical memory for other great memory consuming Windows applications (LOL, I remember when Bill gates once said that never will any version of Windows require more than 64 MB of RAM).

All this has left you with imagining if you want to uninstall Firefox. But Hold on Please there's a little piece of utility written in some foreign language by a guy with Pseudonym FelipEX that dramatically optimizes firefox's memory consumption. Don't believe me, try it out yourself. Search for the utility by named "Firefox Ultimate Optimizer" and try it yourself. Just to tell you the results.

My Firefox was using 388 MB before installation and as I write this post, post installation Firefox Ultimate Optimizer, firefox is just consuming 28 MB of RAM. So, Hold on Please before you think about uninstalling Firefox. A word of caution though, I have not tested this utility enough and cannot tell you as yet whether it drastically reduces the performance of Firefox.


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