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Reducing Firefox's Memory Use

Posted by Zonk on from the that-would-be-really-nice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Many people have complained about Firefox's memory use. Federico Mena-Quintero has a proposal for reducing the amount of memory used to store images, which, in his proof of concept code, 'reduced the cumulative memory usage... by a factor of 5.5.'."

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  1. Re:Easier solution by plover · · Score: 3, Funny

    You call it a leak. They call it a cache. Semantics, really. :-)

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  2. Re:Easier solution by rookworm · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're viewing THAT many images, the Easiest Solution in this case would be to quit looking at all that goddamned porn!

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