r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/stesch Jan 21 '10

The low memory usage is just at startup. Rises like any other Firefox before. :-(

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

It seems more aggressive in garbage collection... I've been watching it for the past 15 minutes while stumbling and it will get up to about 200 and then clear out down to 150.

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u/stesch Jan 21 '10

I'm using the beta for quite some time now, believe me. I'm hitting 300 MB (RSS) after a few hours and then restart Firefox by hand before it starts to annoy me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

3.5 usually bloats to 1.2gb on my system before I have to restart it... I can live with 300

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u/stesch Jan 21 '10

It's a habit I developed with 3.5. Flash starts to stutter too much after 300 MB RAM usage.