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MemShrink progress, week 61–62

It’s been a quiet fortnight for MemShrink. The biggest news is that Kyle Huey made a change so that Firefox discards images that have been removed from the DOM.  This might sound boring, but it’s important because (among other things) it can greatly reduce the amount of memory used for photo slideshows on Facebook.  Kyle […]

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MemShrink progress, week 7

Lots of good stuff this week. Blog posts There were four great blog posts this week relating to memory usage in Firefox. Gregor Wagner compared Firefox and Google Chrome in a 150-tab stress test.  Firefox won hands down.  It appears that Chrome just can’t handle large numbers of tabs open at once;  I’d be interested […]