[Noisebridge-discuss] seeking geek advice: firefox+vimerator or chrom?

Jonathan Lassoff jof at thejof.com
Sun Jan 3 04:05:03 UTC 2010


Excerpts from Michael Shiloh's message of Sat Jan 02 19:55:53 -0800 2010:
> What, 30 tabs is too many?

:) I have a bad habit of middle-clicking on links to "look at them
later", and then I let that stuff stack up.
 
> Why is Firefox so bad at memory management?

Good question. I lack the expertise or motivation to really dive into
what's going on, but one thing I did find was that disabling the binary
Flash plugin really speeds things up over time (I tend to sleep my
machine, leaving my FF process running for days or weeks at a time).

I suspect things like small Flash ads load and cause some hunk of memory
to be allocated or something, and this isn't being cleaned up or
sleeping properly.

--j



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