How to lower the amount of memory that Firefox uses如何降低记忆体数量Firefox的使用

If your computer starts to slow down after you’ve been using Firefox for a while, you may be able to regain some of your system resources by limiting the amount of memory that Firefox is “allowed” to use for caching, thus improving your system performance.如果您的电脑开始放缓后，您一直在使用Firefox了一会儿，你可以恢复您的一些系统资源限制的内存量Firefox是“允许”用于缓存，从而提高您的系统性能。 It should be noted that if you have 1GB or more of RAM, you probably don’t need to follow these steps..应该指出的是，如果你有1GB或更多的RAM ，您可能不需要执行这些步骤..

1. In your Firefox address bar, enter the following text: about:config在您的Firefox地址栏中，输入以下文本： 约：配置



2. Scroll down to the entry titled browser.cache.memory.enable and make sure the Value is set to true .向下滚动，以进入名为browser.cache.memory.enable ，并确保该值设置为True 。 If it’s not, double-click anywhere in the browser.cache.memory.enable line and the status will change to true如果不是的话，双击任何地方，在browser.cache.memory.enable线和状态将变更为真实



3. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu右键单击（苹果的用户按CTRL点击）任何地方，在约：配置窗口并选择新的整数 ，然后从弹出式菜单



4. Enter browser.cache.memory.capacity in the New integer value pop-up box输入browser.cache.memory.capacity在新的整数价值弹出式方块



5. You’ll need to enter a number in the Enter integer value , but that number depends on how much memory you have (specifically, how much you want to “give” Firefox).您需要输入一个数字，在输入整数价值 ，但这个数目，取决于有多少内存，你（具体来说，有多少你想“给”火狐） 。 If you have 256MB or less RAM, enter 4096 as the value.如果您有256MB或较少的RAM ，输入4096作为价值。 If you have 512MB of RAM, enter 6144 or 8192 .如果您有512 MB内存，输入6144或8192 。 If you have 128MB or less RAM, you may want to consider upgrading - memory is getting very inexpensive.如果你有128或更少的RAM ，您可能要考虑改善工程-记忆正在非常便宜。



6. Confirm that the new entry has been created and the integer value is correct确认新入职已建立和整数的价值是正确的



7. If for any reason you wish to restore the default settings, change the browser.cache.memory.capacity integer value to -1 (that’s minus one).如果因为某种原因，你想恢复为默认设置，改变browser.cache.memory.capacity整数值为-1 （即的减1 ） 。

Restart Firefox and see if the change helped.重新启动Firefox ，看看是否改变帮助。 You can use the您可以使用 Task Manager任务经理 (Windows) or the Activity Monitor utility (Mac) to monitor your Firefox memory usage. （ Windows ）或活动的监察公用事业（ MAC ）的监控您的Firefox的记忆体使用量。

More info on this subject can be found here:更多信息关于这个问题可以在这里找到： http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.memory.capacity http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.cache.memory.capacity