If history is teacher, the Bolshevik(or insert Fascist or whatever ideology) Re-education camps are coming back sometime.
If I wanted to be extremely evil, I would gain access to everyone browsing habits and then use my handy-dandy-evil search to figure out my political enemies. Even if I only get a 70% success rate, a little persuasion in the Re-education camps will reveal pretty much everyone else.
Closing a tab, hitting CTR-ALT-DEL, and looking at how much memory Firefox is using is NOT a good indicator of a memory leak. A better indicator is how long and how much can you use Firefox. I can't remember the last time I ran up against Firefox being unusable because it was bloating. Also, to lay blame at Firefox's feet you would need to turn off all your plugins such as Flash, Quicktime, Java, etc.
In a low RAM environment, Firefox is much more aggressive at keeping RAM usage down. Most computers these days have lots of RAM. Programs should use it.
How do you know it has memory leaks? Seriously, have you done a exhaustive memory profile?
Opening a few webpages, closing them, and looking at MemUsage in the task manager before and after is hardly conclusive. Of course, I am assuming you are doing this, but if you have concrete data, please share.
I can leave Firefox running for weeks averaging 50+ tabs at all times.
This very much could be a step in the direction they already took.
Before they shipped browser, email client, calender, HTML editor, and all the core technologies to support it.
Now, instead of shipping a browser and the core technologies to support the browser, just ship the core technologies. The browser could simply be an extension you can install if you want it.
Given -Your machine has lots of memory -Firefox uses lots of memory
False assumption -Firefox's base technology is a memory hog.
Could be more accurate -Firefox scales well.
Ever run Firefox on a Linux box with 64MB? Its still snappy and very usable. Firefox seems to do a decent job at scaling back its memory usage. But if you have the GB of memory, why not let Firefox use it? Every run Minimo? It runs on handhelds.
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If history is teacher, the Bolshevik(or insert Fascist or whatever ideology) Re-education camps are coming back sometime.
If I wanted to be extremely evil, I would gain access to everyone browsing habits and then use my handy-dandy-evil search to figure out my political enemies. Even if I only get a 70% success rate, a little persuasion in the Re-education camps will reveal pretty much everyone else.
Closing a tab, hitting CTR-ALT-DEL, and looking at how much memory Firefox is using is NOT a good indicator of a memory leak. A better indicator is how long and how much can you use Firefox. I can't remember the last time I ran up against Firefox being unusable because it was bloating. Also, to lay blame at Firefox's feet you would need to turn off all your plugins such as Flash, Quicktime, Java, etc.
In a low RAM environment, Firefox is much more aggressive at keeping RAM usage down. Most computers these days have lots of RAM. Programs should use it.
How do you know it has memory leaks? Seriously, have you done a exhaustive memory profile? Opening a few webpages, closing them, and looking at MemUsage in the task manager before and after is hardly conclusive. Of course, I am assuming you are doing this, but if you have concrete data, please share. I can leave Firefox running for weeks averaging 50+ tabs at all times.
This very much could be a step in the direction they already took.
Before they shipped browser, email client, calender, HTML editor, and all the core technologies to support it.
Now, instead of shipping a browser and the core technologies to support the browser, just ship the core technologies. The browser could simply be an extension you can install if you want it.
Flawed logic.
Given
-Your machine has lots of memory
-Firefox uses lots of memory
False assumption
-Firefox's base technology is a memory hog.
Could be more accurate
-Firefox scales well.
Ever run Firefox on a Linux box with 64MB? Its still snappy and very usable. Firefox seems to do a decent job at scaling back its memory usage. But if you have the GB of memory, why not let Firefox use it? Every run Minimo? It runs on handhelds.
Parent is a troll
Sounds like the paster from the First Baptist of Snellville I met on my LDS mission in Georgia. He was pretty irate about the LDS Churh too.