SourceIt's become increasingly clear over the last several months that we have
a pretty pressing need to deal with increases in memory usage in
Firefox. Since we released 4 (and before, too), we've seen lots of
reports about Firefox memory usage being higher than in older versions,
and that Firefox memory usage is growing over time.
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I never gave much importance to the Firefox memory leaks. Not even when I had to manage a machine with 512Mb. Anyway, this problem has always been much ballyhooed ... If it is to improve further, welcome!
I think Firefox users have to take part of the blame for any bloating, mem leaks, etc. Loyal users demand more and more from whatever app, browser, or operating system they choose to use. The developers try to accomodate the users by incorporating new "fixes" into the next release. Many times the fixes cause unforeseen issues and those once loyal users begin looking around for something better.
Looking forward to progress with the memory business. :)
Well...
Firefox 4 sets unofficial download record - Computerworld
the highest i've seen ff 4 climb to is almost 300mb, and that is only when after leaving it minimized for a long time on the taskbar while i do other things. 3.6.? on the other hand ate memory like it was candy. mozilla even admitted that 3.6.? has major memory use issues.
I wonder how much of this problem is actually related to the exponential increase, in useless Flash & JS routines incorporated in websites, for no worthwhile reason (at least from my perspective as a user)?
20 Tabs
Private Bytes: 256 MB
Virtual Size: 467 MB
Working Set: 275 MB
anyone wants a 1.2GB Screeny from FF?
well download count doesn't really mean anything on the long run :)
but yea they need to improve it or else
good luck Mozilla Team!
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