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:Mozilla Corp Board Member Leaks the Truth About Firefox Memory Loss
Mozilla Corp Board Member Leaks the Truth About Firefox Memory Loss
Nov 12, 2007, 17 :30 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (8576 reads)

"Firefox ticks many boxes, but the one big cross it has had to bear over the years is the memory leakage problem that many users have experienced. Here's how it works: user has Firefox browser open and visits websites, Firefox slurps up some system resources, user continues to keep Firefox running, Firefox continues to slurp up ever increasing amounts of precious system resources. Well, that has been the allegation at least, and one which Mozilla has been long at pains to deny. Whenever the subject has cropped up, the official response has always been that there is simply no significant memory leakage with Firefox or anything else that uses the gecko engine for that matter thank you very much.

"Until now..."

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Users have been reporting this problem f ...   thanks a lot for nothing   
Carla Schroder
Nov 12, 2007, 18:04:29
 
It is the job of the OS to allocate and  ...   points to the OS   
Fred Williams
Nov 12, 2007, 19:05:49
 
This is been a pain with Firefox (and Mo ...   I really like Firefox but this IS a HUGE problem!   
George Mitchell
Nov 12, 2007, 20:48:17
 
This is one example of why open source s ...   Porting to new platforms helps everyone!   
MikeFM
Nov 12, 2007, 21:31:31
 
>> It is a well-known chronic widely-rep ...   Re: thanks a lot for nothing   
Jose_X
Nov 12, 2007, 22:51:31
 
>> One can run Firefox literally for hou ...   Re: I really like Firefox but this IS a HUGE probl   
Jose_X
Nov 12, 2007, 23:14:49
 
>> This is one example of why open sourc ...   Re: Porting to new platforms helps everyone!   
Jose_X
Nov 12, 2007, 23:37:29
 
Okay, even if the fix is incredibly ugly ...   Don't blame, fix.   
Brandioch Conner
Nov 13, 2007, 00:42:02
 
How much will $75 Million buy? Not much, ...   How Much Will $75 M illion Buy?   
YetAnotherBob
Nov 13, 2007, 13:50:04
 
Sorry guys, I'm going to stick up fo ...   Memory Fragmentation is _hard_   
Brian Wheeler
Nov 13, 2007, 14:12:29
 
>> They did better work and more work wh ...   Re: How Much Will $75 M illion Buy?   
Jose_X
Nov 13, 2007, 17:03:16
 
>> Memory fragmentation is a hard proble ...   Re: Memory Fragmentation is _hard_   
Jose_X
Nov 13, 2007, 18:15:46
 
  Memory fragmentation is a hard problem ...   Re: Re: Memory Fragmentation is _hard_   
GreyGeek
Nov 13, 2007, 19:54:40
 
>> Qt's API has QOBJECT. If it is ca ...   Re: Re: Re: Memory Fragmentation is _hard_   
Jose_X
Nov 13, 2007, 21:45:27
 
>> >> I am now running the latest releas ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Memory Fragmentation is _hard_   
Jose_X
Nov 14, 2007, 07:02:02
 
>> Coming up soon is a description of ho ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Memory Fragmentation is _hard_   
Jose_X
Nov 17, 2007, 14:22:15
 
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