Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows

An anonymous reader writes "Firefox has gotten so large that it cannot be compiled with PGO on a 32-bit linker anymore, due to the virtual memory limitation of 3 GB. This problem had happened last year with 2 GB, which was worked around by adding a/3GB switch to the Windows build servers. Now the problem is back, and things aren't quite that simple anymore." This only affects the inbound branch, but from the looks of it new code is no longer being accepted until they can trim things from the build to make it work again. The long term solution is to build the 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system.

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[BigDaveyL]

640K of ram ought to be enough for everyone.

Oh, now we admit it is getting bloated

[frovingslosh]

I saw problems months ago, when I accepted the (then) latest update on my older 512 meg XP based HP notebook and Firefox suddenly could no longer open more than just a few tabs before bogging down completely. I mentioned that in Slashdot and the insightful people here told me I was stupid and didn't know what I was talking about.

What Browser are you using?

[SlickNic]

I'm quite curious to know what browser the /. community is using these days. I myself became quite disillusioned with FF and have moved on to Chrome. Maybe the admins would be willing to do post up a weeks worth of logs? (stripped to the basics of course) Or maybe this has already been done and I've simply missed it?

Re:Wow

[Rockoon]

Indeed. Skyrim only claims about 500MB of memory on my system (running it windowed as I post this)