Recently our original article/rant on Firefox’s legendary memory abuse has seen an increase in comments and views; and I had intended to post the following comment in light of the article’s rebirth and the ensuing discussions in the comments.
The reply turned out to be longer than I’d originally intended, so here it is as its [...]
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On the matter of Firefox and memory leaks…
Published by March 19th, 2009 in Operating Systems, Programming, Software 19 CommentsFirefox 3 is Still a Memory Hog
Published by June 3rd, 2008 in Programming, Reviews, Security, Software 375 CommentsOne of the biggest “improvements” that Mozilla claims has made its way into Firefox 3 is improved memory usage, in particular, the vanquishing of memory leaks:
Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an [...]
How do you define an OS as stable?
XP was stable in that you could do an honest day’s work without having to save it every couple of seconds in fear of a BSOD. Windows 2000 was stable: it gave the users what they expected, and once they got it working (driver issues mostly), it remained [...]
