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Firefox Working to Fix Memory Leaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the important-but-boring-work dept.

Christopher Blanc writes "Many Mozilla community members, including both volunteers and Mozilla Corporation employees, have been helping to reduce Firefox's memory usage and fix memory leak bugs lately. Hopefully, the result of this effort will be that Firefox 3 uses less memory than Firefox 2 did, especially after it has been used for several hours." Here's hoping. Frequent restarts of things on my computer make me furious. I can't imagine why anyone would tolerate such things.

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  1. Re:Symmetry by Zelos · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, and there are no bugs that can't be prevented by writing perfect, correct code.

    I think the problem's in the details...

  2. Re:And on three... by Selfbain · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok.

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  3. Re:but but by onetwentyone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could be worse, you could have questioned Firefox's memory handling on a Beowulf cluster of Linux boxes conveniently cooled with a hobby-built liquid nitrogen heat exchange.

  4. Re:Symmetry by ucblockhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, yeah. And you could prevent any memory leaks at all by requiring that malloc never be used and that everything be placed in static memory.

    Kinda hard to code like that, though.

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  5. Re:C++ long-in-the-tooth? by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you can't code without hand-holding tools like automatic garbage collection, perhaps you belong in a different profession!
    Professional computer programming, for example.
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  6. Re:And on three... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, from what I understood over the last year "THERE IS NO MEMORY PROBLEM".

    Every time someone mentions memory issues, the responses are either that it's supposed to consume a gigabyte of ram so that it speeds up the back button or that "there is no memory issue". This technique seems to be working for Microsoft. "THERE ARE NO MORE SECURITY PROBLEMS IN WINDOWS." Hey, maybe that's what the Microsoft developers visiting with the Mozilla developers last year was all about...

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  7. Re:Symmetry by stinerman · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's also some way to make a plugin registered for flash that does nothing.
    You don't have to be so mean. Yeah, so Gnash is still in alpha but it's coming along...
     
    :-)