Now a days, the most popular browsers known to us are Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. I must say that Mozilla Firefox tries to keep the advantages of the both browsers Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and that is the reason Mozilla Firefox has a slight upper hand in reliability as compared to Google Chrome.
In the snapshot mentioned above you can see a figure quoted as ‘363’, this is the RAM being used by the Firefox browser. You must have observed that when you launch Mozilla Firefox your computer works fine and then after sometime when you try to open a Windows folder browser on any other windows on your computer to find a song to play or to open a doc file to read, then it takes some considerable time. This forces you to believe that your computer has gone slow, but actually that is not the case, a normal browser should utilize RAM up to 75 MB.
But Mozilla has a different it will start from 25 Mb and then it will keep on going until it takes some figures as mentioned above. It does not uses your RAM efficiently, in other words once it allocates a part of your RAM, it does not de-allocate it until you close that browser or restart it and hence when time passes on your computer starts reacting slow. I have an add-on for Mozilla Users which can solve this problem, specially who have slow computers at their home.
After you install it, you will have to restart the browser and then you will see an icon as mentioned above in the snapshot, if you will hover your mouse over the icon, it will show you current amount of RAM memory being consumed by that browser and if it exceeds your expectations, then just click that icon and it will restart that session by preserving all the tabs which were opened initially. After the restart you will find the value to be reduced as mentioned in the snapshot below.
If you do not want to check that again and again and you want to set a threshold so that it should automatically restart the browser after that value. Then you can follow the steps mentioned below:
That’s it, now it will automatically start the browser after that specified value. Please let us know is you face any issue regarding this add-on.
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In the snapshot mentioned above you can see a figure quoted as ‘363’, this is the RAM being used by the Firefox browser. You must have observed that when you launch Mozilla Firefox your computer works fine and then after sometime when you try to open a Windows folder browser on any other windows on your computer to find a song to play or to open a doc file to read, then it takes some considerable time. This forces you to believe that your computer has gone slow, but actually that is not the case, a normal browser should utilize RAM up to 75 MB.
But Mozilla has a different it will start from 25 Mb and then it will keep on going until it takes some figures as mentioned above. It does not uses your RAM efficiently, in other words once it allocates a part of your RAM, it does not de-allocate it until you close that browser or restart it and hence when time passes on your computer starts reacting slow. I have an add-on for Mozilla Users which can solve this problem, specially who have slow computers at their home.
After you install it, you will have to restart the browser and then you will see an icon as mentioned above in the snapshot, if you will hover your mouse over the icon, it will show you current amount of RAM memory being consumed by that browser and if it exceeds your expectations, then just click that icon and it will restart that session by preserving all the tabs which were opened initially. After the restart you will find the value to be reduced as mentioned in the snapshot below.
If you do not want to check that again and again and you want to set a threshold so that it should automatically restart the browser after that value. Then you can follow the steps mentioned below:
- Go to Tools and click on Extensions.
- Now you click the Option in front of that extension.
- Set the threshold value and grant the restart permission to that add-on.
That’s it, now it will automatically start the browser after that specified value. Please let us know is you face any issue regarding this add-on.
Download Memory Restart Extension
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