Reducing Firefox RAM Usage

(via Digg)

One Federico Mena Quintero showed a proof-of-concept on how to reduce memory consumption of Mozilla Firefox on your PC.

When you run Mozilla or Firefox and load a web page with images, it stores the uncompressed images as pixmaps in the X server. In particular, it seems to maintain live pixmaps for all the images in all the tabs that you have open; even if a tab is not visible, the images will be in your X server’s memory.

When you exit Firefox, the X server is smart enough to return this memory to the kernel.

Web pages use compressed images, of course, to reduce download time. These images will likely take up a lot of space when uncompressed.

Read more about his explanation here.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

2 Comments

kzap says:

19 years ago

yah flash banners can really bog down firefox, bad firefox, bad :)
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15 years ago

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