22-04-2009, 22:41
Without more details of the stability of the system in general and a dump of any errors and what is loaded at the time of the crash I'd be making to many assumptions to be able to pinpoint a cure.
I would however shy away from Bladewave's advice as it has little to do with stability and on anything with an decent amount of memory is likely to be detrimental (see here for Firefox's current default values as to why). Oh and the value has no effect on the total memory usage of Firefox. I'm happily sat on my laptop right now with Firefox guzzling away just under ½GB from a total of 1½GB, which is actually pretty tame for me as it is normally using twice that much! Needless to say it multitasks way smoother on the bigger desktop units running a 64-bit OS and more memory
Oh, and computers use binary not base-12, although you will commonly run across base-16. Oh and those of you still not bored if you did use base-12 then the nearest round value to 16,000 isn't 16,384 but 20,736!
Yup, I is back! Let the controversies ensue
I would however shy away from Bladewave's advice as it has little to do with stability and on anything with an decent amount of memory is likely to be detrimental (see here for Firefox's current default values as to why). Oh and the value has no effect on the total memory usage of Firefox. I'm happily sat on my laptop right now with Firefox guzzling away just under ½GB from a total of 1½GB, which is actually pretty tame for me as it is normally using twice that much! Needless to say it multitasks way smoother on the bigger desktop units running a 64-bit OS and more memory
Oh, and computers use binary not base-12, although you will commonly run across base-16. Oh and those of you still not bored if you did use base-12 then the nearest round value to 16,000 isn't 16,384 but 20,736!
Yup, I is back! Let the controversies ensue