Free space of hard drive in the MacBook air changes seemingly at random

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  I have another type of problem with Firefox

  Description

  My hard drive and the Extras have plenty of space. Yet several times each and every day, I'm getting flashed "virtual memory minimum insufficient..." Virtual memory pagefile... "Any joy? Please help if you can. Thank you. Cecilia.

  This has happened

  Each time Firefox opened

  Only a few weeks ago, (tried everything)

  Troubleshooting information

  ?

  Version of Firefox

  3.6.3

  Operating system

  Windows XP

  User Agent

  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en - us; RV:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

  Plugins installed

  • -Adobe PDF plugin for Firefox and Netscape
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  • Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plugin for Mozilla browsers
  • Java plug-in 1.6.0_07 for Netscape Navigator (DLL Helper)
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  • DRM Netscape Plugin store
  • DRM Netscape Object network

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