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

[Kurt Buff]

On Jan 8, 2008 6:45 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> 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.

I've tried the stuff in the first article, but the second page is new
to me - sounds like good stuff, though. I look forward to FF3.

Kurt