note to self....

From a comment on the Slashdot discussion Firefox Memory Leak is a Feature (bracketed info is from other posts in the same thread) - these steps describe how to turn off the memory intensive tab history caching Firefox is doing:

[0. type 'about:config' in the Location bar to get the configuration settings page]

1. set browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to "0"

2. It does (try opening a huge Fark photohop thread, huge as in multiple hundreds of pictures, see Firefox ramp up to 600 or 700Mb ram consumption, close the fark tab, see firefox' ram usage drop dramatically to regular ram usage levels)

[more info at >mozillazine]

[some posts suggest this may not be available in versions before 1.5]

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