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It's great that FF is advancing in performance terms and slowly closing the gap with Chrome. However, the big pain is the memory leaks caused by the addons (na
by sheldor 14y ago
It's great that FF is advancing in performance terms and slowly closing the gap with Chrome.
However, the big pain is the memory leaks caused by the addons (namely Firebug) which make the memory climb to 2 gigs after 4-5 hours of development. I guess they should be focusing on these issues too, since some of them are so popular, that users prefer FF thanks to them (like the aforementioned one).
- mccr8 14y agoIn fact, we have recently fixed a common source of addon memory leaks: http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-leak http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-... The version containing this fix is scheduled to be released in August, I believe.