Neuro surgery .. cannibalistic techniques lmao

Java is usually the main problem. It is not super reliable at giving up memory it uses. So obviously the later the version of Java you use, the better. Obviously both LW & your browser use Java ... so the messages between & storage of memory between them must be adding up at a guess.

What helps use up memory? The worst offender is too many incompletes (many shares can also add to it however only if over 1,000), and search tabs. So I'd suggest these things to help reduce 'some' memory use:

* Periodically, Tip: Purge the Downloads Queue! (click on blue link)

* Set both uplds & downlds to autoclear.

* Close search tabs some time after you have done a fresh search, don't have too many up at one time.

* Close all LW windows you don't need open at that time. eg: Connections window.

* Don't use the Resume/Find Sources option often or perhaps even at all, that is a known memory user.

* OOB searching can apparently add to memory use too, you find this under Speed settings.

* Performance options under Advanced settings, all these add to memory use & are not required.