I have been using Chromium more often than Firefox lately but I think that these Firefox secrets just might change my mind. After all, some of these secrets are actually about limiting RAM usage. Yes! Limiting RAM usage. We should try these tips so we could know if it’s all true.

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4. Limit RAM usage: If Firefox takes up too much memory on your computer, you can limit the amount of RAM it is allowed to us. Go to about:config, filter “browser.cache” and select “browser.cache.disk.capacity”. It’s set to 50000, but you can lower it, depending on how much memory you have. Try 15000 if you have between 512MB and 1GB ram.
5. Reduce RAM usage further for when Firefox is minimized: This setting will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up much less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when [...]

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