Something that happened a while ago but I failed to notice was that Chris Leary added a regexp cache which, among other things, is flushed on every GC. This fixed an existing problem where cold regexps were not being discarded, which was a MemShrink:P1 bug because 10s or even 100s of MBs of compiled regexp […]
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I wrote yesterday about how I converted a relative of mine from a Chrome user to a Firefox user. The post was picked up by the tech press including Tom’s Hardware and Conceivably Tech. (Tom’s said I “described why getting users back from Chrome may nearly be impossible”, which I think is a laughable exaggeration […]
[Update: before commenting, you should probably read this follow-up post that clarifies certain things about this post.] On my recent vacation I was staying with a family member, let’s call her Karen (not her real name). She was a Google Chrome user, and I managed to convert her to a satisfied Firefox user. Here’s what […]
I’ve been tracking recent memory leak reports in bug 640452. I’m doing this because I think memory leaks hurt Firefox, in terms of losing users to other browsers, as much as any other single cause. (I suspect pathological performance slow-downs due to old and busted profiles hurt almost as much, but that’s a topic for […]
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Reasons not to worry
The higher-ups at Mozilla like to say that we should focus on building the best browser we can, and not to pay too much attention to our competitors. This is probably wise when you consider that we are competing against Microsoft, Apple and Google. But I can’t help reading comment threads relating to browsers on […]