[Gllug] Re: What is the Mozilla & Firefox difference ??

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:54:03AM +0000, Craig Millar wrote:
> On 29/03/06 11:43 +0800, Richard Cohen wrote:
> > On 29/03/06, Mike Brodbelt <mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > 11/ Memory leaks and general instability. This one's a problem with the
> > > suite as well, admittedly.
> > 
> > The memory leaks are a big problem for me at the moment.  I don't know
> > if I've got a pathalogicial combination of extensions, behaviour, or
> > what, but on my laptop (with a slow hard drive) I find that firefox
> > approaches 100% of physical RAM within a day or two of starting it,
> > and the machine then becomes unusably slow.  I suspect there is a
> > slight catch-22 going on - one of the extensions known to leak is
> > sessionsaver, but I rely on it to restore my session when I have to
> > restart due to running out of memory.
> 
> Memory leak? Apparently it's a feature (*cough*) :
> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html
> 
> I did change browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 1 in about:config
> and I do no longer have to restart my browser every morning.

Hmmmm, since I run squid locally I should not see the performance degradation
that they say that I will if I switch off backward caching ... unless I visit
lots of dynamic (uncachable) pages.

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