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Mopping Up Mozilla Memory Leaks

Posted by Hemos on from the code-janitors-unite dept.

mouseman writes "Geodesic Systems, a maker of memory management/debugging software, has a live demo of their Linux product running on the Mozilla nightly builds. It's pretty damn slick -- it detects memory leaks and can show where in the code the leaked memory was allocated and actually recover (GC) the leaked memory. The Mozilla reports actually look pretty good, which jibes with my own impressions of how much it has improved -- see for yourself."

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  1. Other Platforms by wazzzup · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Will this directly affect and improve Mozilla on non-Linux platforms? Would it have a use flagging the leaks in the Linux code and then making the code corrections on the OS X platform?

  2. Re:Is there some other Mozilla out there by Aexia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Be aware that while Mozilla is physically slower and more memory hungry, it's still a lighter browser over all. It takes around 66% of the download space of a recent MSIE, despite also having email and IRC and whatever, and even manages to be smaller than Netscape.

    It may be slower and consume more resources but at least it uses less disk space?

    That's really not an argument the open source community should be making.