So I was just browsing the net, and I came across this way to minimize the ammount of RAM that FF uses when minimized.

about:config
New Boolean
config.trim_on_minimize
true

Then reset it!
It worked well for me

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while i understand many people seem to have problems with it, I have not noticed any problems with ie7, i tend to use either firefox or ie7, whichever takes my fancy at the time

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honestly, I use firefox for my daily browsing. and use IE ONLY for making online purchases....

It's not that I trust one over the other. I like how Firefox runs... but whenever making financial transactions, I always use a different browser, so as to prevent any accidental stealing of my info. I could just as well run Safari for winblows, opera or something else. The point is to use different stuff when just surfing.

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Yeah, I tried safari, and when I tried to log in to my forum: An unidentified error has occoured, please tell apple about this. So long as I can't access my own forum, I'm not using Safari. Opera is good, but not many add ons for it.

yeah,I like Opera... but I use a a lot of the addons on my firefox.
haha... has anyone tryed using the old Lynx browser?
its impossible!!

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It's not impossible. Not easy, especially on the newer link packed web pages. I used it for more than a year back in the 90's exclusively. It was a good way to avoid the ads

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Ah! I found the info in the page linked above.

I'm a tab-addict, so I can get a large amount of tabs going without even realizing. Usually Firefox is great about it, but even with smaller amounts there are times when its RAM usage goes sky high. Closing it and reopening it (even with all the previous tabs) usually cuts it down to size, but I'm not sure what causes it. I've also tweaked a few of my about:config settings (like the minimize one mentioned above), so I rarely have issues.

Is Firefox becoming bloated? | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com

I'd agree, firefox is getting bloated, it's not only Microsoft, and considering that IE is already a V8, and Firefox at V3, this doesn't sound that good...

I think a slimmer version of firefox would be a better idea.

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