{"id":571,"date":"2011-03-10T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T05:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=571"},"modified":"2011-03-11T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T23:02:19","slug":"memshrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2011\/03\/10\/memshrink\/","title":{"rendered":"MemShrink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memory consumption is really important in a web browser.\u00a0 Firefox has some room for improvement on that front, and so <a href=\"http:\/\/muizelaar.blogspot.com\/\">Jeff Muizelaar<\/a> and I are working to start up an effort, called &#8220;MemShrink&#8221;, to reduce memory consumption in Firefox 5 (and beyond).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve started a<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Performance\/MemShrink\"> wiki page<\/a> outlining some ideas on ways to improve our tracking of memory consumption.\u00a0 Please read it and comment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also opened <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=640452\">bug 640452<\/a>, which is a tracking bug for memory leaks in Firefox 5, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=640457\">bug 640457<\/a>, which is a tracking bug for other memory improvements in Firefox 5.\u00a0 Please CC yourself if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I just added <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=640791\">bug 640791<\/a>, which is a tracking bug for improvements to memory profiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory consumption is really important in a web browser.\u00a0 Firefox has some room for improvement on that front, and so Jeff Muizelaar and I are working to start up an effort, called &#8220;MemShrink&#8221;, to reduce memory consumption in Firefox 5 (and beyond). We&#8217;ve started a wiki page outlining some ideas on ways to improve our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,4544,4546],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"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=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}