Re: Firefox alternatives?
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 15:50 -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> I call this "memory leakage". I don't know if actual code bugs, or
> the sloppy way Firefox allocates and frees memory. As far as I know,
> all browsers suffer from this. If you find one which doesn't, let us
> know.
It's not only memory leaks but also memory fragmentation that will make
memory usage grow, which is a lot harder to prevent...
And in case of a browser, it's not only the browser itself that can
leak memory, but also the JavaScript programs that run on it. I've
seen cases where force-reloading (Ctrl+F5) or closing one page that had
been loaded in a tab for a while, and then waiting a couple minutes to
give the JavaScript engine's garbage collector time to do its job,
freed about 8 GiB (!) of RAM afterwards...
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Jan Claeys
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