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Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages

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Re: Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages

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Great news! Many thanks to Timothy Nikkel and all the other Mozilla devs. It's particularly great on Fennec, where the memory constraint is noticeable.

For people - like me - who didn't know what B2G was, it's Boot2Gecko, the OS project: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/FAQ

Re: Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages

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Or alternatively... Firefox fail was previously wasting gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages

Gee, the trolls are up early today...

On one hand true, on the other - it isn't that those fixes are some magic, extra smart hackery (at least on the idea level, dunno about the implementation). Don't load an image that user don't see, remove an image that user saw but don't see anymore - those seem as rather obvious solutions.

Re: Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gee, the trolls are up early today...

On one hand true, on the other - it isn't that those fixes are some magic, extra smart hackery (at least on the idea level, dunno about the implementation). Don't load an image that user don't see, remove an image that user saw but don't see anymore - those seem as rather obvious solutions.

Yeah, and to cure cancer you just need to eliminate the bad cells without affecting the good cells. It's obvious.
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