Firefox Looking To Lose The Flab – And The Flaw

“Perhaps because it’s the second most-widely-used web browser in
the world, not to mention being Open Source — and because
expectations for the “market-leading” browser aren’t particularly
high — Firefox takes a good bit of flak whenever a new security
hole or resource sink is discovered. The Mozilla devs — or, at
least some of them — intended this week to be about memory
management, and Mozilla’s Co-Director of Developer Tools, Ben
Galbraith, got the ball rolling on Monday with a blog post laying
out plans for a new tool intended to make the process known as
“garbage collection” — freeing up resources by clearing out
objects no longer required in memory — a more transparent and
manageable process.”

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