[conspire] (forw) Re: Firefox & Windows 7 Memory Leak.

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Sep 13 01:17:28 PDT 2011


Quoting Edward Mokurai Cherlin (mokurai at sugarlabs.org):

> Mozilla is putting its money on Javascript zombie compartments and on
> add-ons in general.
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668871
> Bug 668871
> 	
> [meta] Zombie Compartments! They stay alive after their tab has closed
> 
> http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/07/20/zombie-compartments-recognize-and-report-them-stop-the-screaming/

Very droll!  Thanks for that.  And this initiative may help them getting
a handle on the problem, which is real even though caused by third-party
developers, rather than Mozilla Foundation's coders.

(Firefox needs braaaains!)





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