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It also brings the possibility to overcome ~4GB memory limit per x32 process. Which is nice.

• com2kid 13y ago
  Very nice indeed, I crash Firefox a few times a day from hitting the memory limit. Granted this is due to AB+ and Reddit Enhancement Suite. Although imo.im leaking memory over time doesn't help! (I am somewhat annoyed that an IM client takes up 500MB of memory, I miss Meebo!) Right now FF is at a fairly svelte 1.8GB. Heh. The other problem is that performance degrades dramatically as the number of open tabs increases. Once I hit 50 or so tabs scrolling becomes horribly jerky. From the sounds of it, this change may very well fix that as well. (For reference I am on an insanely fast home built machine!)
  • aquadrop 13y ago
    You can try Palemoon x64. I also had problems with crashing over memory limit. Was on Palemoon for 2 months and it works OK. I don't use many addons though.
  • ferongr 13y ago
    >Once I hit 50 or so tabs scrolling becomes horribly jerky That could be a GPU driver issue. GPU scheduling is generally horrible outside the "run a fullscreen game as fast as you can and screw everything else" usercase.
    • com2kid 13y ago
      Well in hopeful theory land those other tabs that aren't active shouldn't be hitting my GPU. :) I can also pop over to IE and it scrolls a-ok! (To be fair, IE11 has beautiful scrolling, everything else looks jerky in comparison, it really is quite a lovely effect!) But all my plugins are in FF, so.... with an SSD it is not like FF takes too long to come back up anyway! Still annoying though!