One of the things I like most about AGS

[Candle]

Just love this program.



I use AM too and that thing gets over 100mb sometimes.

[A�rendyll (formerly Yurina)]

That's sure a late post about something so obvious!

AGS doesn't suck up all your memory and it also is very userfriendly! Look at Gamemaker, I don't get anything about what it is supposed to do. Of course, I ran into AGS later, but that only proves that the most well-known isn't always the best. (I won't bug you with a long Micro$oft tirade, don't worry. )

With me, it's:
- Firefox: 33.520 kb (I run 2 windows now)
- AGS: 15.328 kb

Another great discovery about AGS!

~Yurina

[Radiant]

With me, it's:
- Firefox: 33.520 kb (I run 2 windows now)
- AGS: 15.328 kb

Well, of course, both allocate memory as needed, so Firefox will claim more memory whenever you load more webpages, or especially more graphics on those. AGS will claim more memory whenever you load more sprites and other resources.

[Klaus]

There's at least a way to free memory that's used by Firefox when you minimize its window.

Open the configuration table of Firefox by typing "about:config" into its address field.
Then right click within the window and select "New Boolean".
Name this new label as "config.trim_on_minimize" and set it to "True".

For me it reduces allocated memory (Firefox) from about 50000k down to 5000k on minimizing the browser window.
By the way: This trick also works with Thunderbird.

[Candle]

Thanks Klaus for the hint to fix memory.

[voh]

Open the configuration table of Firefox by typing "about:config" into its address field.
By the way: This trick also works with Thunderbird.

How's that supposed to work with Thunderbird? I don't find it at all logical that you're suggesting to input something in an address field which simply isn't there :p

[Klaus]

How's that supposed to work with Thunderbird? I don't find it at all logical that you're suggesting to input something in an address field which simply isn't there :p

Well, the "trick" is not to open the configuration table by typing "about:config" into its address field. It's about adjusting the settings. 
Of course editing the configuration of Thunderbird is different. As this topic is/was about Firefox I only wanted to offer this as a short additional sidenote (for those who already know about adjustments in Thunderbird and only need that label information). Actually for the e-mail client it's more difficult as you need to edit its config file with a text editor.
Anyway here's how to do it (it looks more difficult as it actually is):

You need to close Thunderbird first.
Then browse to Thunderbird's application folder (maybe one of the folders used in the paths
below is hidden, eg "Application Data", so you need to unhide it first (Windows folder options).
Depending on your OS you should find it there:

• XP, 2000: Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<CryptedName>
• NT: WINNT\Profiles\<UserName>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<CryptedName>
• 98, ME: Windows\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\<CryptedName>
• MacOS X: ~/Library/Thunderbird\Profiles\<CryptedName>
• Linux, Unix: ~/.thunderbird\Profiles\<CryptedName>

Open the file "prefs.js" with a text editor like notepad.
Finally add this line at the end of the existing code
   user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);
Save the document (standard ascii text file format, not as a Word document or similar).

That's it... You see why I only made a short info about it