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Glad to see they are finally doing something to address memory fragmentation besides suggesting that users "occasionally restart Firefox". Seems like this has
by Impossible 15y ago
Glad to see they are finally doing something to address memory fragmentation besides suggesting that users "occasionally restart Firefox". Seems like this has been a major problem in Firefox forever.
- ootachi 15y agoMozilla has been well aware of this problem for years. See this blog post from 2008, 3 years ago, detailing the changes that went into optimizing memory use for Firefox 3, including switching to jemalloc to decrease fragmentation: http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/ http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/