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All modern web-browsers except IE9 are vulnerable to a huge memory leak

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Re: All modern web-browsers except IE9 are vulnerable to a huge memory leak

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Post by chc »

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I'm not sure where you got that from, but just so everybody's clear, this leak isn't in Flash — it's somewhere in the browsers' image loading code. Odd that an identical bug would be present in both Chrome and Firefox.

Re: All modern web-browsers except IE9 are vulnerable to a huge memory leak

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Post by Zhenya »

ltamake wrote: post #3

Haha, the irony.

I dont think this is very ironic. IE9 is native to MSWIN and is written by the people who have the deepest knowledge of the operating system. They probably found this issue and fixed it before it was exposed to the other teams like Goog and Mozilla.

Re: All modern web-browsers except IE9 are vulnerable to a huge memory leak

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Post by guard-of-terra »

Zhenya wrote: post #14
ltamake wrote: post #3

Haha, the irony.

I dont think this is very ironic. IE9 is native to MSWIN and is written by the people who have the deepest knowledge of the operating system. They probably found this issue and fixed it before it was exposed to the other teams like Goog and Mozilla.

I don't see how the deepest knowledge of Microsoft Windows would help them fight website memory usage issues. Those things are entirely unrelated.

However the reported bug is non-trivial, therefore it would be very strange if it would manifest itself identically on different non-related browsers. They might all leak, but I doubt they all leak 1M for 22kb file.

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