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What is the max memory Firefox uses to display pages and how to increase it ?

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Hello everyone,

                             I am using the latest build of Firefox x86 on Windows 8.1 and I want to know what is the maximum memory that firefox uses to display web pages ie. What is the maximum size that a page can be ??

Also how do I increase that limit ?? is there anything in the about:config of Firefox to that ?

Hello everyone, I am using the latest build of Firefox x86 on Windows 8.1 and I want to know what is the maximum memory that firefox uses to display web pages ie. What is the maximum size that a page can be ?? Also how do I increase that limit ?? is there anything in the about:config of Firefox to that ?

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I haven't tested this, or researched in the source code, but if you do not need the file to be parsed as HTML in the browser, and instead you have Firefox treat it as a download, I imagine that would work around the limitation you've encountered.

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It depends on your system memory and how much the operating system can allocate to Firefox.

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So that means I cant increase the page size right ?? For example if I wanted to have a page of 400 MB I can't have that right ?

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You mean size of a webpage...?

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Yes the size of the web page. it seems FireFox crashes if the size of the web page is over 60 MB. So I am looking for a way to go over that limit. Really need it for some development work that I am doing.

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Can you tell your system memory ..?

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8 GB of Ram and 1.16 TB hard disk storage.

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That is more than enought for handeling a webpage of that size, Does the webpage uses flash or any hardware acceleration...?

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I am downloading a file as a webpage in the browser so that's why I am going to need more memory that 60 MB, which is the memory FireFox provides for downloading a webpage.

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I haven't tested this, or researched in the source code, but if you do not need the file to be parsed as HTML in the browser, and instead you have Firefox treat it as a download, I imagine that would work around the limitation you've encountered.