Firefox has included a memory “freer” to their add-on applications, through a process called Memory Fox which installs via the afom.exe file. What the application does is to free up RAM usage of the Web browser, while users are surfing the Web through the Firefox browser. Simply put, the application serves as a memory booster by flushing the memory when usage has reached its peak. The flushed memory is stored in the fragmented orphaned RAM. The file is saved in the Common Files subfolder of C:\Program Files, or AppData\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles. Users’ accounts of their experience with the application are mostly positive, stating that the file does indeed help in decreasing RAM usage. The file is not required to run upon startup, although there is an option to activate the application and allow it to run with startup. Users can also launch the application only when browsing the Internet by activating the file from the add-ons tab of Firefox.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. afom.exe. is used by Firefox Memory Optimizer, If you shut down afom.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop afom.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Firefox Memory Optimizer, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed afom.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Firefox Memory Optimizer, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if afom.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that afom.exe, belongs to, in this case Firefox Memory Optimizer