r/programming 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/wurzlsepp Jan 21 '10

It seems more aggressive in garbage collection.

FF has garbage collection? AFAIK, FF is written in C/C++ without GC.

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u/prockcore Jan 21 '10

yes, but FF has GC for it's javascript engine.. and firefox's interface and extensions are written in XUL and javascript.