

Using this function will sometimes result in a slight performance decrease measured in milliseconds, but I do mean slight, the chance of you noticing the performance decrease is almost zero.įiremin is not one of a kind. For those of you who are a little more technically minded, you can read more about it here. Other words, tells Firefox to give back some of the system memory it’s hanging on to.

If you expected it to be complicated, we are truly sorry for disappointing you.Force FireFox into submission and reclaim your memory.Ī small application that will eliminate all memory leaks in Firefoxįiremin uses a safe API function called EmptyWorkingSet that basically forces the process (in this case Firefox) to use less memory. To use Firemin you will need to unzip firemin.zip, double click on Firemin.exe and allow Firemin babysit Firefox. We tweaked our memory optimization engine a little and applied it to Firefox (including Firefox extensions) to fight those nasty memory leaks. Firemin will attempt to eliminate most Mozilla Firefox memory leaks.
