[SLL] Laughing down Firefox today at my work...

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:46:24 -0800
Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is some kind of agenda to handle firefoxes
> memory and crashing problems?  Often if you continuously don't get no
> respect, you are soon on the way out.


Turns out that the perceived firefox problems aren't firefox at all.
It's just that they have to allocate memory over and over again for
lots of small things like fonts and images that come from the web.
This can lead to a lot of fragmentation in the allocator provided by
the system, and Window's is particularly bad.

That said, in Firefox 3 a /ton/ of work is being put in to do
allocations differently as to not trigger these types of scenarios.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak and http://www.squarefree.com/2007/09/20/firefox-memory-usage-and-memory-leak-news/ would be particularly helpful in discussions with the naysayers.

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