Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

Post by DannoHung » Fri, Aug 12, 2011, 3:53 PM UTC

yid wrote: post #71

DannoHung wrote: post #56

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Did they make Firefox re-entrant so that a f'd up page in one tab doesn't affect all the other ones and the browser chrome?

Either you're incredibly involved in the Mozilla codebase, or you're misusing the word "re-entrant" [1]. Since you're asking about development status, I'm going to assume the latter. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant_(subroutine)

Forgive me if I've completely misunderstood how GUIs work, but isn't reentrancy a basic requirement for GUIs in multi-threaded applications to be responsive when one thread of execution is blocked?

I mean, I guess they could use a message queue between their thread for window chrome and page rendering, but I don't recall them ever mentioning anything about that in any dev journals that I used to read years ago.

Post by arantius » Fri, Aug 12, 2011, 8:41 PM UTC

hollerith wrote: post #50

huhtenberg wrote: post #47

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Hint: use multiple windows. One window with few tabs is for programming to-reads, second windows - with sites from searching for some item to buy, third - with stock information, etc. This way accumulating 100+ tabs is really not a big deal and it still remains manageable. Until FF crashes or, worse yet, grinds to a halt that is. "We are sorry, it is so embarrasing" it would say on a restart and then get herniated ag…

Yeah, I know, I should take my question to Stack Overflow, but does anyone know how to configure FF to not try to reopen tabs after a crash? (Takes a long time on my old machine.)

This is default behavior as of Firefox 4. When you launch a new browser, the (default) home page has a "restore last session" button.

Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory

Re: Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory