How to lower the amount of memory that Firefox uses如何降低記憶體數量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.如果您的電腦開始放緩後，您一直在使用Firefox了一會兒，你可以恢復您的一些系統資源限制的內存量Firefox是“允許”用於緩存，從而提高您的系統性能。 It should be noted that if you have 1GB or more of RAM, you probably don’t need to follow these steps..應該指出的是，如果你有1GB或更多的RAM ，您可能不需要執行這些步驟..

1. In your Firefox address bar, enter the following text: about:config在您的Firefox地址欄中，輸入以下文本： 約：配置



2. Scroll down to the entry titled browser.cache.memory.enable and make sure the Value is set to true .向下滾動，以進入名為browser.cache.memory.enable ，並確保該值設置為True 。 If it’s not, double-click anywhere in the browser.cache.memory.enable line and the status will change to true如果不是的話，雙擊任何地方，在browser.cache.memory.enable線和狀態將變更為真實



3. Right-click (Apple users ctrl-click) anywhere in the about:config window and select New and then Integer from the pop-up menu右鍵單擊（蘋果的用戶按CTRL點擊）任何地方，在約：配置窗口並選擇新的整數 ，然後從彈出式菜單



4. Enter browser.cache.memory.capacity in the New integer value pop-up box輸入browser.cache.memory.capacity在新的整數價值彈出式方塊



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).您需要輸入一個數字，在輸入整數價值 ，但這個數目，取決於有多少內存，你（具體來說，有多少你想“給”火狐） 。 If you have 256MB or less RAM, enter 4096 as the value.如果您有256MB或較少的RAM ，輸入4096作為價值。 If you have 512MB of RAM, enter 6144 or 8192 .如果您有512 MB內存，輸入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 ，您可能要考慮改善工程-記憶正在非常便宜。



6. Confirm that the new entry has been created and the integer value is correct確認新入職已建立和整數的價值是正確的



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).如果因為某種原因，你想恢復為默認設置，改變browser.cache.memory.capacity整數值為-1 （即的減1 ） 。

Restart Firefox and see if the change helped.重新啟動Firefox ，看看是否改變幫助。 You can use the您可以使用 Task Manager任務經理 (Windows) or the Activity Monitor utility (Mac) to monitor your Firefox memory usage. （ Windows ）或活動的監察公用事業（ MAC ）的監控您的Firefox的記憶體使用量。

More info on this subject can be found here:更多信息關於這個問題可以在這裡找到： http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.memory.capacity http://kb.mozillazine.org/browser.cache.memory.capacity