Jorge Villalobos encouraged add-on authors to check for memory leaks<\/a> on the official Mozilla add-ons blog.<\/p>\n The following add-ons had memory leaks fixed: FavSync<\/a>, Download Youtube Videos<\/a>, Page Speed<\/a>.<\/p>\n The follow add-ons were downgraded to “preliminary review” status on AMO, giving them less visibility: QuickDrag<\/a>, Yahoo Toolbar<\/a>.\u00a0 The Yahoo Toolbar case is interesting;\u00a0 it is available on AMO, but only has 47,618 users there.\u00a0 But the number of installed copies is much larger than this.\u00a0 (I can’t say how much larger, because the exact numbers are not public knowledge.)\u00a0 So it’s clear that most people who have it installed got it elsewhere, probably directly from Yahoo.\u00a0 Given that AMO accounts for only a tiny fraction of the installations, the effect of the downgrade in AMO review status is negligible.\u00a0 Furthermore, Jorge’s attempts to contact Yahoo appear to have failed.\u00a0 Finally, the only other means we have for addressing add-ons with problems is block-listing them, but that would be overkill in this case.\u00a0 So we are at an impasse.\u00a0 It’s a frustrating situation!<\/p>\n Tim Taubert fixed two<\/a> leaks<\/a> in the recently updated new tabs page.<\/p>\n Jonathan Kew added memory reporters for thebes font objects<\/a>.\u00a0 With text-heavy pages open, these can account for 10s of MBs of memory.<\/p>\n Andrew McCreight fixed some shutdown leaks involving the XBL cache<\/a>.<\/p>\n Igor Bukanov did something with JS principals<\/a> that I won’t pretend to understand.\u00a0 This bug wasn’t marked with the MemShrink tag, but it gave good Talos results, reducing the number of malloc calls and the maximum heap size on several platforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n This week\u2019s bug counts:<\/p>\n Nothing spectacular there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Add-ons Jorge Villalobos encouraged add-on authors to check for memory leaks on the official Mozilla add-ons blog. The following add-ons had memory leaks fixed: FavSync, Download Youtube Videos, Page Speed. The follow add-ons were downgraded to “preliminary review” status on AMO, giving them less visibility: QuickDrag, Yahoo Toolbar.\u00a0 The Yahoo Toolbar case is interesting;\u00a0 it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,30,4544,4546],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gecko and Firefox<\/h3>\n
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