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Re:Firefox 23 is available by nhebb on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @11:33AM (#6167127)
Go to about:memory then click the "Minimize memory usage" button.

P.S. If anyone knows how to add that button to the FF toolbar, I would consider you a minor deity for at least a whole day.

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Re:Firefox 23 is available by MikeCapone on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @11:45AM (#6167226)
Interesting. What does pressing that button actually do?
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Re:Firefox 23 is available by lambda_cube on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:08PM (#6167371)
If you hover that button with your mouse pointer you can read the following explanation:

Send three "heap-minimize" notifications in a row. Each notification triggers a global garbage collection followed by a cycle collection, and causes the process to reduce memory usage in other ways, e.g. by flushing various caches.

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