Obi-J

OMG, I’ve been trying to finish a post about NIN|JA and suddenly my computer starts crashing an hanging like crazy. At the same time my Ableton session crashed*. In looking at my processes Firefox was using 1.7 GB of memory! 1.7 GB? Seriously? WTF!! I’m running Firefox 3.0.10 and the memory leak issues were supposed to be a thing of the past. Guess not.

Tekzilla has a tip to free up RAM when you minimize firefox. The video is rather confusing, so I’ll type it out here.

1. Open Firefox
2. In the address bar type about.config
3. You may see a warning about voiding a warranty. Just click OK
4. You’ll be presented with a list of configuration files.
5. On any of them, right-click, select NEW, select BOOLEAN, then type config.trim_on_minimize
6. Then select true to enable
7. Restart Firefox.

There are a few more tips here, but another thing to try is RAMback, which is an extension which allows you to manually free up memory.

It might be time to try Google Chrome.

* I’m well aware I shouldn’t be running music production and general computing on the same machine, but I like to multi-task. Plus, there isn’t physical room nor budget for another computer.