Archive for December 9th, 2007

More on Firefox and some on memory leaks

I’ve seen this article in the past, but it came up in my Google reader list for some reason, so I’ll blog about it.

One of the main problems people have with using Firefox is that its such a memory hog – it eats up a lot of memory and I’ve seen instances where after running for a few days it can consume more then 1 Gigabyte of memory and as a result becomes incredibly slow as the operating system has to keep swapping browser parts in and out of virtual memory just to change tabs. This of course slows down other applications. Mozilla developers, on the other hand, claim to keep a really tight ship and to test for and fix memory leaks. I’m not saying this is not the case, but the evidence for memory abuse are staggering.

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