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Reduce Firefox memory usage considerably for smooth browsing sessions

Posted By: Gaurav Sood | Jul 28 2010

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Mozilla Firefox is a web browser that uses more memory than any other web browser available like Google Chrome or Opera. Firefox interface is such that it utilizes loads of memory space when more than 10 tabs are open in one window. And to top it all the visual enhancement add-ons and themes eat-up even more memory space. Users having RAM and virtual memory allocation limitations eventually switch to browsers like Google Chrome and Opera for this very reason.

faster firefox
faster firefox

If you are a Firefox web browser user then it will pay-off if you use Firefox add-ons/extensions that reduce Firefox memory usage. This saves you from all the frustration when your web browsing session is reduced down to snail’s pace due to too many open tabs or windows. Memory Fox 3.3 is an add-on that will help you immensely in reducing Firefox memory usage as you can see from the screen-shot below.

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firefox memory fox main

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Another add-on worth installing for Mozilla Firefox is BarTab 2.0 that puts all your currently not usable tabs in your bar tab. These tabs can be loaded anytime you want, thereby saving memory usage.