How to reduce FireBug’s memory usage
I love FireBug but one day it became a memory behemoth! It was consuming over 800k every hour or so of work. I did a little poking around and found that I had inadvertently set network monitoring, console logging and JavaScript debugging to be on by default. After a little digging, I found the tip below in the FireBug Google Group buried deep inside a lengthy thread.
Click on the Console tab to activate it, then click on the drop-down arrow and select Disabled from the drop-down menu. Repeat this for the Script tab and the Net tab. Now these three features will be disabled by default. When you want to use any one of them, simply activate them on a per-site basis by ticking the tab next to the appropriate feature and clicking the Apply settings for www.site.com button.
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