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# Stability. Firefox will suffer fewer aborts/crashes due to virtual or physical memory exhaustion. The former is mostly a problem on 32-bit Windows builds with a 2GB or 4GB virtual memory limit, the latter is mostly a problem on mobile devices that lack swap space.
# Reputation. Fewer people will complain that Firefox is a memory hog and that Mozilla ignores memory usage.
[http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2012/02/08/the-benefits-of-reducing-memory-consumption-2/ This blog post] describes these benefits in more detail.
There are two main ways to reduce memory consumption.
