This last one is a classic for our site. This article was posted back in March of 2006 and has received over 4,300 Diggs. Since that time it has brought in nearly 200,000 unique visitors and many find that it does exactly what they want.
This tweak will send Firefox to your virtual memory when you minimize the browser, therefore freeing your physical memory for other programs to use. Firefox will reduce its physical memory usage, when minimized, to approximately 10MB (give or take some) and when you maximize Firefox it will take back the memory that it needs. Some people argue that this is not a good thing to do but other browsers, like Opera, have are setup to do this by default.
- Name: config.trim_on_minimize
- The preference name does not exist and needs to be created. Use an Boolean type when creating the preference.
- Default Value: N/A
- Possible values:
- true - this enables Firefox to be written to the virtual memory when minimized.
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