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>Leave yourself logged in to Facebook for a few days, and watch it take up 2GB of memory. It's entirely possible for a website to have a memory leak. (Or, at
by shardling 13y ago
>Leave yourself logged in to Facebook for a few days, and watch it take up 2GB of memory.
It's entirely possible for a website to have a memory leak. (Or, at any rate, consume an ever increasing amount of memory.) If closing the tab and opening it again frees the memory, then there might not be anything FF can do about it. (It's also possible you've got an addon causing the problem.)
- Domenic_S 13y agoDoesn't FB constantly update the feed? If you leave the feed open, won't the page grow unbounded? Seems like it's working as intended...
- omaranto 13y agoIt doesn't remove the oldest items? (I really don't know, I only visit Facebook for about an hour at a time at the most.)
- kevingadd 13y agoFacebook indeed has a long history of really dumb memory leaks that browsers can't do anything about, combined with memory leaks that are exacerbated by browser bugs and require improvements to garbage collectors and stuff. It's rough.