Firefox tip

If you minimize Firefox, it will (automagically) reclaim memory that it?s no longer using.

Apparently this is a workaround for the Firefox bug where it doesn?t reclaim memory for tabs that you?ve closed (a long time FireFox / Mozilla bug I?ve blogged about in the past). Now when Noel told me this, I immediately tried it and saw my memory usage go from 153 megs* to 52 megs. Awesome. Thanks Noel. (Oh and this works in Thunderbird also so I strongly recommend minimizing your Firefox and Thunderbird windows every few hours).

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