Feb 11
I always had this problem with my Firefox web-browser. Whenever I was running it for a long time, it suddenly hung and the only solution that brought it back to life was a pure and solid click on the “end process” button. Some weeks ago I really had enough of it and I thought I would run a search on this, hoping to find a solution. And luckily I did. This website explains how to fix the Firefox memory leak. Let me summarise the article:
- Type about:config into your address bar in Firefox.
- Create a new integer value (right click, new > integer). Name it as browser.cache.memory.capacity and give a low number for its value (Save it afterwards)
- Search for the value browser.cache.disk.capacity and set its value to 15000 if you are using 1G of RAM.
- Search for network.prefetch-next and set its value to false.
I think this should solve the memory leak, however on the website I have just recommended you can read about some more solutions as well. Happy hacking Firefox 