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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. And on three... by onetwentyone · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Cue it's not a bug it's a feature. GO!

  2. It's enough to make anyone consider using IE... by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Frequent restarts of things on my computer make me furious. I can't imagine why anyone would tolerate such things

    I know. It's enough to make anyone consider using IE...
  3. Re:Why I tolerate it by DogDude · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Duh! I can't believe I never thought of that. That's simple enough. Great idea, thanks! Even better, it's OS-wide, so it effects all traffic coming into the PC. Sweet!

    Oh well, buh-bye Firefox!

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