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A comment on Ask HN: How to use Firefox better?.

Re:Ask HN: How to use Firefox better? by sp332 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @09:46AM (#5244509)
How much RAM do you have on your machine? Are you running out because of Firefox? Actually the memory management has been really tightened up over the last year or so. Type "about:memory" into your address bar and you can see exactly what's going on in there.
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Re:Ask HN: How to use Firefox better? by guojh0570 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @10:50PM (#5248832)
Yes, I always see "about:memory" and minimize memory usage. My machine doesn't run out because of Firefox, but yesterday it took nearly 1G RAM. I have 4GB RAM.
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Re:Ask HN: How to use Firefox better? by sp332 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @11:06PM (#5248874)
OK so if you're not hurting for memory, then I think it's using an appropriate amount of memory.
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Re:Ask HN: How to use Firefox better? by guojh0570 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @11:52PM (#5249031)
I just wander why Firefox always takes more memory for no reason-Even I keep the same pages.
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