its not something brand new, but I never had it installed and I just got it; memory usage went down at least 4x

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/afom-memory-recovery-retention/

I was looking for a Chrome alternative, but could not find it...

I need to try that. Thanks ASPD

A life saver. my FF have been hawkin memory and behaving badly for ages. Hope this will sort it.

I'm telling you, is like a whole new browser:

Thanks - hopefully it will liven things up, esp. on my old laptop with a mere 1GB of memory (even though that's 30x the size of the HD in my first laptop!)

Compaq 386 ))?

Quote from: ASPD on January 21, 2011, 05:09:09 PM
Compaq 386 ))?

Are you nuts? I couldn't afford a muscle machine like that in 1991. Mine was an IBM 286. The 386 from IBM that year, with a staggering 60MB HD was almost $6000!

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I.B.M.'s 7-Pound Laptop
By PETER H. LEWIS
Published: March 26, 1991

THE International Business Machines Corporation is unveiling a new laptop computer called the PS/2 L40SX today. The company gave a sneak preview of the machine earlier this month at the giant CeBIT Hanover Fair in Germany and has been testing it with students at the Harvard Business School.

The L40SX is I.B.M. 's third attempt to come up with a successful machine in the important laptop market, following the failures of the original PC Portable and the subsequent PC Convertible. Analysts said the third time might be the charm, but they noted that competition among Intel 386SX-based notebooks is quite fierce and that I.B.M.'s new machine is larger and more expensive than most.

The PS/2 L40SX, which has a list price of $5,995, weighs seven pounds and is based on a 20-megahertz version of the Intel 386SX microprocessor. The standard model has two megabytes of random access memory, a 60-megabyte hard disk drive, a high-capacity 3.5-inch diskette drive and an illuminated VGA screen.

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/26/science/personal-computers-ibm-s-7-pound-laptop.html

Thanks trying this out. Even with 6 gigs, FF itself slows down. (dozens-tabs-always-open addict)

Seems to really do the trick for me. Great find!

Wonder why this isn't part of the full package, it's well over a year old.

Went through this list today:

http://www.jimwestergren.com/make-firefox-run-up-to-4-times-faster/

Actually seemed to help a lot as well.

Seems to have been pulled - link not working and no results when searching for afom.

The plugin links to this page:
http://www.browsermemory.com/

I had a lot of problems with AFOM.  With it installed I would periodically lose the ability to do some pretty basic stuff.  Paste in to some form elements was one.  Remember passwords for htttp_auth protected stuff was another particularly infuriating one.  Took me a while to realise it was AFOM, but problems cleared when I removed it.