What did you set it to?
Does anyone know why the memory firefox uses just seems to increase the longer it is open. Why is this happening. Can I do anything to control this.
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Whenever you load a website, it is loaded into your RAM so that pressing the forward and back buttons loads the respective page(s) very quickly instead of having to redownload them to your computer. While this helps browser performance, it can take a toll on system performance after a while. By default Firefox is set to use a max of 51MB of RAM, though you can adjust that amount:
* Type about:config into the address bar.
* Right-click anywhere, and go new->integer.
* The name of the new integer should be browser.cache.memory.capacity
* Enter the desired value. If you want it to be 15MB, enter the value 15000.
Hope this helps,
John
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Mine is set for 60000... does that sound too high? Using Firefox 1.5 and am a moderate browser. 
Glenn
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Effectively unlimited. There's no downside to this in my book. Windows will swap if need be and even then that can beat the internet speed.
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I'll know who to blame, Bob.
I've just set mine to 1,000,000,000 as well! 
Mark
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Changed mine to 1,000,000,000 and so far no adverse results... imagination tells me things are better! 
Glenn
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Bob, Sounds good for Windows. What about the Mac side?
Why does everyone always assume that everyone is on a PC platform?
Why is this? I know that I am on a Mac platform and a minority compared to the windows group. Did you forget to include the Mac side with instructions?
Same question goes to mouseoroma.
Any posts that I make, I always pay attention to the Mac instructions and the PC side respetively.
Why not here! The Browsers Forum is for all platforms.
-Kevin
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browser.cache.disk.capacity designates the amount of space Firefox is allowed to take up on your hard drive, while the other is how much memory (RAM) Firefox is permitted to use. Both are used for the same general purpose (caching), but they refer to two different medians, with RAM being the faster of the two, and thus the prefered choice.
Hope this helps,
John
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