Usually if you notice then you can find out that while FireFox or Thunderbird running on foreground application.. It uses a handful amount of memory.. So is there any way to reduce it? Well, Ryan from CyberNet Technology News is offering a simple tweak for reducing your memory usage in Firefox and thunderbird.

This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized. So far, from my experiences with using this today, when you maximize Firefox it will obviously increase the memory usage. However, it does not seem to go back up to the insane amount that it was at before minimizing it. For example, Firefox was at 180MB of memory usage and then I minimized it and after a few seconds I maximized it. After maximizing it and continuing on my routine business it appeared to only have gone up to 60MB.

Note: I've tested his method.. it works but depends on which kind of system you have. This tip work on Windows only.

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