Comments on: Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 – mostly security fixes

By: Tiago

Tiago — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:18:26 +0000

Alex, I visited Ben Goodger’s site before writing the post and I know that there are fixes and other stuff. But thanks for mentioning it anyway.

By: Alex M.

Alex M. — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:20:51 +0000

@ Tiago: You can read more about memory leaks, why the happen, and how to fix them at Ben Goodger's Inside Firefox blog.

By: Tiago

Tiago — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:23:23 +0000

Andrew, in your site it says that the memory leak is a feature (and not a bug) because it “retains the rendered document for the last five session history entries for each tab”.

The more tabs you got open, the more memory it will consume which causes the memory leak in some cases. So the fault is on the user (because we open too many tabs open), instead of the software (that should control the memory usage of the tabs)?

Following that fact on your site, there is a note which describes Opera being able to do the same thing without consuming so much memory…

By: Alex M.

Alex M. — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:59:50 +0000

I actually read somewhere that sometimes Firefox extensions can cause that memory problem. I’ve also noticed that the memory bug is much more noticeable on older computers, with less RAM. The computer I’m using right now has 512MB of RAM, and I’m having no problems running Firefox.

By: Tiago

Tiago — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:24:04 +0000

Oooops, didn’t notice that :\

By: Al

Al — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:21:03 +0000

Thanks Shwaza, fixed.