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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. Switched to Mozilla the day before yesterday... by mellon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's really improved a lot. 0.97 was painfully slow on OS X, but 0.99 is actually faster than MSIE. There are still a few UI glitches - for example, command-H doesn't work - but this is the first time I've been able to switch to Mozilla and not have to switch back within an hour. I'm still going strong after three days. Things are definitely looking up for Mozilla.

  2. Re:Slashdotted already? by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Tabbed browsing is far better than anything IE has.

    and, guess what, your pressiouse Mem foot print, well I looked at my memory used before I IERadicated my IE, after ward, I gained a ton of memory with out IE on my system.

    IEs memory foot print is hiden from you, that is why it takes windows so long to load, because IE is in memory at boot.

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