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XP + firefox + ram caching problem

silverpig

silverpig

Lifer
XP Pro
1 GB ram
Mozilla Firefox

Okay here's the deal. Sometimes I have 10 tabs open on different threads here that I'm reading. Now, if I have to go out for a few hours, I'm still interested in these threads and don't want to have to find them all again, so I just leave firefox minimized and go about my business. When I come back a few hours later, I like to just be able to flip through all the tabs and hit F5 (refresh) on all of them. The problem is that XP for some reason doesn't want to cache firefox to the 1 GB of ram I have (not doing anything else too major... just trillian and maybe thunderbird at these times) and as a result it takes a really long time for firefox to respond again. I can hear the disk crunching away as it retrieves the info from a temp file. This wouldn't be so bad except that it takes longer to do this than it would for me to open up a new instance of firefox, navigate to AT forums and find a few of the threads.

My question here is this: Is there some way to tell XP to not ever send firefox to the swap file and just always keep it in ram?
 
Basically just don't minimize firefox. I believe it's partly firefox's fault because when it's minimized it makes a request to have it's working set size trimmed instead of waiting to get around to it on it's own, but if you were minimizing it for hours it would have happened before you got back anyway.
 
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