Comments on: More on Firefox and some on memory leaks http://geek.co.il/wp/2007/12/09/more-on-firefox-and-some-on-memory-leaks Thoughts about the universe in general Sun, 20 May 2012 09:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19978 By: Guss http://geek.co.il/wp/2007/12/09/more-on-firefox-and-some-on-memory-leaks/comment-page-1#comment-114304 Guss Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:31:59 +0000 http://geek.co.il/wp/2007/12/09/more-on-firefox-and-some-on-memory-leaks/#comment-114304 Stuart - I just noticed that its actually you that commented on my blog :-/ yea, I suck. But I still stand by all of what I said. Anyway, thanks for coming over and commenting :-) Stuart – I just noticed that its actually you that commented on my blog :-/ yea, I suck. But I still stand by all of what I said.

Anyway, thanks for coming over and commenting :-)

]]> By: Guss http://geek.co.il/wp/2007/12/09/more-on-firefox-and-some-on-memory-leaks/comment-page-1#comment-114154 Guss Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:23:16 +0000 http://geek.co.il/wp/2007/12/09/more-on-firefox-and-some-on-memory-leaks/#comment-114154 Ok, I updated the last paragraph - Peter claims some fixed are going to be in Firefox 3, but I don't think there is any significant change in Firefox 3 beta (see also http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/19/firefox-3-beta-1/ ) and we don't know anything about the release (I'm pretty sure Firefox would not get any major memory management work otherwise they're not going to make the roadmap). One problem I have with the opinions of Firefox developers is that they tend to characterize Firefox memory issues as insignificant (in the first link in your comment - [About larger caches:] It worked great but caused us to use a bit more memory), while at the same time characterizing fixes that result in small improvement to the memory problems as huge fixes that have a lot of impact. I hope that version 3 will see a lot of improvement - especially for the many tabs use case, but as I don't think that Peter's use case of 20 tabs is large - I regularly have 20 tabs or more open in the browser (yay session manager!) and my girlfriend sometimes has over a hundred tabs at the same time - I also don't think that the Firefox team would succeed in doing what they failed miserably at for the last 5 years: delivering solutions to users needs. Ok, I updated the last paragraph – Peter claims some fixed are going to be in Firefox 3, but I don’t think there is any significant change in Firefox 3 beta (see also http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/19/firefox-3-beta-1/ ) and we don’t know anything about the release (I’m pretty sure Firefox would not get any major memory management work otherwise they’re not going to make the roadmap).

One problem I have with the opinions of Firefox developers is that they tend to characterize Firefox memory issues as insignificant (in the first link in your comment – [About larger caches:] It worked great but caused us to use a bit more memory), while at the same time characterizing fixes that result in small improvement to the memory problems as huge fixes that have a lot of impact.

I hope that version 3 will see a lot of improvement – especially for the many tabs use case, but as I don’t think that Peter’s use case of 20 tabs is large – I regularly have 20 tabs or more open in the browser (yay session manager!) and my girlfriend sometimes has over a hundred tabs at the same time – I also don’t think that the Firefox team would succeed in doing what they failed miserably at for the last 5 years: delivering solutions to users needs.

]]> By: Stuart Parmenter http://geek.co.il/wp/2007/12/09/more-on-firefox-and-some-on-memory-leaks/comment-page-1#comment-114075 Stuart Parmenter Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:07:59 +0000 http://geek.co.il/wp/2007/12/09/more-on-firefox-and-some-on-memory-leaks/#comment-114075 I suggest reading http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/14/leaks-memory-we-never-forgot-about-you/ and http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/15/less-fragmentation-coming-in-firefox-3/ and rewriting your last paragraph :) I suggest reading http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/14/leaks-memory-we-never-forgot-about-you/ and http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/15/less-fragmentation-coming-in-firefox-3/ and rewriting your last paragraph :)

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