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See my comment below; Mozilla has been well aware of memory fragmentation for years and has been constantly working to decrease it.

• iam 15y ago
  I remember that blog post like it was yesterday. I guess the Mozilla source code is such a gargantuan beast at this point that it really does take years to get significant improvements into it? Could explain their recent flurries of rewriting the javascript jits.
  • ootachi 15y ago
    Yes, Mozilla source code is huge (5.2 million lines [1]). But keep in mind that all browsers are roughly that big (compare Chrome, at 4.8 million lines [2]). [1]: https://www.ohloh.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest https://www.ohloh.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest [2]: http://www.ohloh.net/p/chrome/analyses/latest http://www.ohloh.net/p/chrome/analyses/latest
    • hollerith 15y ago
      Yes, I have to laugh every time a PHB refers to a web browser as a "thin" client.
      • hollerith 15y ago
        Incidentally, does anyone know how many source lines of code iOS is? How about the software distributed on the OS X install disk minus hardware drivers?
    • nikcub 15y ago
      this is the #1 reason why I sought out a Firefox alternative a long time ago. I like to have a lot of tabs open, and to almost never close or restart the browser. Firefox was, and to an extent still is, unusable with that type of usage pattern. I hope they get it sorted out because it is the main blocker to getting a lot of the early adopter crowd who have switched to chrome back onto Firefox.
      • saulrh 15y ago
        Maybe you have a different use case than I do; my Chrome instance usually uses about 30% more memory than Firefox despite having a quarter as many tabs open.
        • nikcub 15y ago
          OS X? I have 50+ tabs open atm and it is taking up 690MB in total. Chrome is also good with swaping/paging tabs that are in the background. Also, I have flash disabled, and use 3 separate builds of chrome on OS X to separate web accounts, dev instances and anonymous browsing
          • saulrh 15y ago
            Win7. Between eight and ten tabs open, one open to Grooveshark. Everything gets refreshed every eight hours or so. Firefox usually has anywhere between five and a hundred tabs open. Both get rebooted about once every three days for updates. Chrome is at 400MB, FF is currently at 300.
            • nikcub 15y ago
              my own experience was that chrome on windows is the best/fastest browser experience available atm, but I don't use it often. have you tried chrome canary or webkit/safari? you seem to have a weird problem - it might be down to a plugin or extension, so I would disable them all and re-enable one-by-one.
              • saulrh 15y ago
                I'm running Canary. I think it's mostly thanks to Flash, really; I've never had good luck with Adobe software and Flash is the worst of the worst.
                • nikcub 15y ago
                  chrome://plugins/ - kill flash, enable html5 on youtube, and you will never miss it. been 18 months for me, and I very very rarely find that I need to open a flash-enabled browser