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Increase Browsing Speed With Mozilla Firefox

There are many people complaining about the Firefox Memory Bug. Lets get it straight. It’s not a bug, It’s part of the cache feature. This ‘feature’ is how the pages are cached in a tabbed environment. To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page navigation are re-navigation to pages visited less than 10 pages ago, usually using the back button), Firefox implements a Back-Forward cache that retains the rendered document for the last five session history entries for each tab. This is a lot of data. If you have a lot of tabs, Firefox’s RAM memory usage can climb dramatically. how to get out of it and increase performance as you navigate the web. Their are many ways ’secrets’ on how to manipulate settings in “about:config” to drop the memory usage as long as possible and to increase the speed at which Firefox loads sites. Below is the detailed procedure how to do it...

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