Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
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Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#2Nicholas Nethercote's blog has more technical details about the work he and others are doing to measure and optimize memory use in Firefox: http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/category/memshrink/
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#3Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#4Nicholas Nethercote's blog has more technical details about the work he and others are doing to measure and optimize memory use in Firefox: http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/category/memshrink/
Thanks, I'll put that into the story.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#5They should have been working on these issues a long time ago. I think they are far more important than many of the new features that came with v5. The only thing holding many of us back from using FF is the memory issue. Good thing the FB debugger is so awesome, because that's the only thing that keeps bringing me back at this point.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#6They should have been working on these issues a long time ago. I think they are far more important than many of the new features that came with v5. The only thing holding many of us back from using FF is the memory issue. Good thing the FB debugger is so awesome, because that's the only thing that keeps bringing me back at this point.
You imply there is a direct choice between working on one feature vs another. In reality not everyone can work on every aspect of a project. Plus it's a free software project. Contributors will work on whatever is important to them/their company.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#7I can't believe I just got called a "mom and pop beige-box surfer"...
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#8I can't believe I just got called a "mom and pop beige-box surfer"...
I'll second that. Considering I work at an online development agency and only have 4GB of ram in my work machine, I'd say the author is a bit out of touch. This is most definitely an issue for me.
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#9They should have been working on these issues a long time ago. I think they are far more important than many of the new features that came with v5. The only thing holding many of us back from using FF is the memory issue. Good thing the FB debugger is so awesome, because that's the only thing that keeps bringing me back at this point.
Is FB better than chrome dev tools?
Re: Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7
#10They should have been working on these issues a long time ago. I think they are far more important than many of the new features that came with v5. The only thing holding many of us back from using FF is the memory issue. Good thing the FB debugger is so awesome, because that's the only thing that keeps bringing me back at this point.
Is FB better than chrome dev tools?
I use both. I find that sometimes one or the other will display some weird traceback, or worse, silently fail. Now my first reaction to a problem that isn't obvious is to switch debugger.
Sadly I think the world of Javascript debugging still has some way to go...