As I mentioned previously, my workhorse laptop was stolen late December, 2006. Since then I've been using a much older laptop circa 1988. Okay, it's not that old, but it's a Pentium 4 with only 500 MB of RAM ... and it turns out, my Firefox browser occasionally likes to suck up about 3-400 MB of that RAM in one sitting.

Of course, that might have something to do with all 47 of my favorite extensions ("My Firefox on crack: the best extensions I could find").

Every time I install Firefox on a new machine, I wind up tweaking its registry settings to improve its page-load time and network connections to give me a better browsing experience. This time I needed to do the same thing, but also minimize some of the RAM I'm using. While doing the research for my tweaks, I thought I'd share my results with you in case you're interested and brave enough to muddle around in the Firefox about:config settings. Also, I wanted to save my notes on my blog so I won't have to trawl the Net again the next time 'round.